Relationships among the stem, aboveground and total biomass across Chinese forests

Journal of Integrative Plant Biology

Volumn 49, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1573-1579

  Cheng, Dong Liang ^a,c   Wang, Gen Xuan ^b,c   Li, Tao ^c   Tang, Qing Long ^c   Gong, Chun Mei ^c  

^a FUJIAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Aboveground biomass; Allometry; Forest; Isometric scaling; Plant biomass allocation patterns; Stem biomass; Total biomass

Indexed keywords

ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS; ALLOMETRY; BIOACCUMULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; ESTIMATION METHOD; FOREST; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STEM;

CONIFEROPHYTA; MAGNOLIOPHYTA;

EID: 35448948797     PISSN: 16729072     EISSN: 17447909     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1774-7909.2007.00576.x     Document Type: Article

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