Overstorey · a field guide to plant

Plants competing
for light, resolved
down the canopy.

plant integrates the demography of a size-structured population through a light environment its own individuals create — assimilation, growth, and mortality emerging from leaf-level physiology rather than fitted curves.

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light fraction I(z)/I₀ = e^−k·L(z)

Mechanistic, not fitted

Growth and mortality fall out of a carbon budget — assimilation minus respiration and turnover — so trait effects propagate the way they do in a plant.

Emergent competition

Each individual shades those below it. The light environment is solved as a fixed point of the community, not imposed.

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Tip

New here? Start with installation, then your first individual. Looking for function-level docs? They live in the reference site.