Allometric scaling of production and life-history variation in vascular plants

Nature

Volumn 401, Issue 6756, 1999, Pages 907-911

  Enquist, Brian J ^a,c   West, Geoffrey B ^c,d   Charnov, Eric L ^b   Brown, James H ^b,c  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ECOLOGICAL ANALYSIS AND SYNTHESIS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^c SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GROWTH RATE; LIFE HISTORY; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

ALLOMETRY; ARTICLE; GROWTH RATE; LIFESPAN; PLANT GROWTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREE;

EID: 0033613446     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/44819     Document Type: Article

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