Laboratory Biosphere and Module Biospheres

M. Nelson, J.P. Allen, and W.F. Dempster, Modular Biospheres – A new platform for education and research – paper at COSPAR 2006 in Beijing, Advances in Space Research 41(5):787-797 (2008).

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W.F. Dempster, A. Alling, M. van Thillo, J.P. Allen, S. Silverstone and M. Nelson, Technical review of the Laboratory Biosphere closed ecological system facility, presented at COSPAR/IAF meeting, Houston, October 2002, Advances in Space Research, 34: 1477-1482, 2004.

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M. Nelson, W.F. Dempster, S. Silverstone, A. Alling, J.P. Allen and M. van Thillo, Crop Yield and Light/Energy Efficiency in a Closed Ecological System: Laboratory Biosphere experiments with wheat and sweet potato, Advances in Space Research 35 (9): 1539-1543, 2005.

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W.F. Dempster, J. Allen, A.. Alling, M. Nelson, S. Silverstone. and M. van Thillo, 2005. Atmospheric dynamics in the “Laboratory Biosphere” with wheat and sweet potato crops, Advances in Space Research 35:1552-1556.

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M. Nelson, W.F. Dempster, J.P. Allen, S. Silverstone, A. Alling, Cowpeas and pinto beans: Performance and yields of candidate space crops in the Laboratory Biosphere closed ecological system, Advances in Space Research 41(5):748-753 (2008)

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Dempster, William F., Nelson, M., Silverstone, S., Allen, J.P. Carbon dioxide dynamics of combined crops of wheat, cowpea, pinto beans in the Laboratory Biosphere closed ecological system, Advances in Space Research 43: 1229-1235 (2009). doi:10.1016/j.asr.2008.12.005

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