Relationships between mean shoot and root masses and density in an overcrowded population of hinoki (Chamaecyparis obtusa (Sieb. et Zucc.) Endl.) seedlings

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 213, Issue 1-3, 2005, Pages 391-398

  Ogawa, Kazuharu ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

3 2 Power law of self thinning; Allometric exponent; Mean root mass; Mean shoot mass; Size density relations

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POPULATION STATISTICS; SEED; TRAJECTORIES;

ROOT MASSES; SEEDLING MASSES; SELF-THINNING;

FORESTRY;

ALLOMETRY; OVERCROWDING; POWER LAW; ROOT-SHOOT RATIO; SEEDLING; SELF THINNING;

BIOLOGICAL POPULATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ROOTS; SEEDLINGS; SHOOTS; THINNING; TRAJECTORIES; TREES;

CHAMAECYPARIS; CHAMAECYPARIS OBTUSA;

EID: 20544460437     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2005.04.005     Document Type: Article

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