Plant growth is an essential ecological process, integrating across scales from physiology to community dynamics. Predicting the growth of plants is essential to understand a wide range of ecological ...

We study the modeling of nonconvex piecewise-linear functions as mixed-integer programming (MIP) problems. We review several new and existing MIP formulations for continuous piecewise-linear functions ...

Six non-linear growth functions were fitted to tree height-diameter data of ten conifer species collected in the inland Northwest of the United States. The data sets represented a wide range of tree ...