Growth-size scaling relationships of woody plant species differ from predictions of the Metabolic Ecology Model

Ecology Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 889-901

  Russo, Sabrina E ^a   Wiser, Susan K ^b   Coomes, David A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Allometric scaling theory; Growth form; Growth diameter scaling; Height diameter scaling; Maximum likelihood methods; Metabolic model of ecology; New Zealand forests; Tree diameter growth; Tree maximum height

Indexed keywords

ALLOMETRY; GROWTH RATE; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; WOODY PLANT;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOLOGY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; NEW ZEALAND; REPRODUCIBILITY; TEMPERATURE; TREE;

ECOLOGY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEW ZEALAND; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TEMPERATURE; TREES;

AUSTRALASIA; NEW ZEALAND;

EID: 34548522556     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2007.01079.x     Document Type: Article

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