Resource dynamics and plant growth: A self-assembling model for individuals, populations and communities

Functional Ecology

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 133-145

  Colasanti, R L ^a   Hunt, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Allocation; cellular automata; competition; functional types; individual based models; L systems; modular growth; self thinning

Indexed keywords

GROWTH; INDIVIDUAL-BASED MODEL; MODELLING; PLANT; RESOURCE DYNAMICS;

EID: 0030619878     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2435.1997.00088.x     Document Type: Article

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