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- Title
Efficient Bayesian automatic calibration of a functional–structural wheat model using an adaptive design and a metamodelling approach.
- Authors
Blanc, Emmanuelle; Enjalbert, Jérôme; Flutre, Timothée; Barbillon, Pierre
- Abstract
Functional–structural plant models are increasingly being used by plant scientists to address a wide variety of questions. However, the calibration of these complex models is often challenging, mainly because of their high computational cost, and, as a result, error propagation is usually ignored. Here we applied an automatic method to the calibration of WALTer: a functional–structural wheat model that simulates the plasticity of tillering in response to competition for light. We used a Bayesian calibration method to jointly estimate the values of five parameters and quantify their uncertainty by fitting the model outputs to tillering dynamics data. We made recourse to Gaussian process metamodels in order to alleviate the computational cost of WALTer. These metamodels are built from an adaptive design that consists of successive runs of WALTer chosen by an efficient global optimization algorithm specifically adapted to this particular calibration task. The method presented here performed well on both synthetic and experimental data. It is an efficient approach for the calibration of WALTer and should be of interest for the calibration of other functional–structural plant models.
- Subjects
OPTIMIZATION algorithms; CALIBRATION; BOTANISTS; GLOBAL optimization; GAUSSIAN processes
- Publication
Journal of Experimental Botany, 2023, Vol 74, Issue 21, p6722
- ISSN
0022-0957
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/jxb/erad339