Sanio's laws revisited. Size-dependent changes in the xylem architecture of trees

Ecology Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1084-1093

  Mencuccini, Maurizio ^a   Hölttä, Teemu ^a   Petit, Giai ^b   Magnani, Federico ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Allometry; Meta analysis; Metabolic scaling theory; Murray's law; Scaling; WBE; Wood anatomy

Indexed keywords

WATER;

ALLOMETRY; BODY SIZE; CONIFEROUS TREE; ECOLOGICAL THEORY; META-ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; POWER LAW; XYLEM;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CONIFER; EVOLUTION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; METABOLISM; PLANT STEM; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TRANSPORT AT THE CELLULAR LEVEL; WOOD;

BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CONIFEROPHYTA; EVOLUTION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLANT STEMS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; WATER; WOOD;

CONIFERALES; GYMNOSPERMAE; MAGNOLIOPHYTA;

EID: 34848840719     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2007.01104.x     Document Type: Article

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