LEAFWEB

LeafWeb is a SErvice-in-Exchange-for-Data-Sharing (SEEDS) Project. The objective is to develop a global database of biochemical, physiological, and biophysical properties of single leaves to support studies of plant functions and terrestrial carbon cycle modeling. LeafWeb provides automated numerical analyses of leaf gas exchange measurements. With the approval of the user, the data LeafWeb receives are preserved and captured. This effort is part of ongoing research and data management activities in the area of climate change science at Oak Ridge National Laboratory... LeafWeb employs the Exhaustive Dual Optimization (EDO) approach to fitting A/Ci curves for parameters in the Farquhar-von Caemmerer-Berry (FvCB) model (Gu et al. 2010). For each A/Ci curve, four sets of parameters are fitted because a given A/Ci curve might not contain sufficient constraint power for all parameters in the FvCB model.