Erratum: The scaling of leaf area and mass: The cost of light interception increases with leaf size (Proceedings of the Royal Society Series B Biological Sciences (2007) 274, (2109-2114) DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2007.0417);The scaling of leaf area and mass: The cost of light interception increases with leaf size

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 274, Issue 1622, 2007, Pages 2109-2115

  Milla, Rubén ^a,b   Reich, Peter B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD REY JUAN CARLOS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Allometry; Leaf area; Leaf mass; Power laws; Scaling; Specific leaf area

Indexed keywords

ALLOMETRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; LEAF AREA; SCALE EFFECT;

ALLOMETRY; ARTICLE; CLIMATE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DRY MASS; ECOSYSTEM; LEAF AREA; LEAF SURFACE; LIGHT INTERCEPTION; NONHUMAN; PLANT LEAF; POWER ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; ERRATUM; ERROR;

EID: 34548047930     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2007.0417     Document Type: Erratum

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