Crown plasticity and competition for canopy space: A new spatially implicit model parameterized for 250 North American tree species

PLoS ONE

Volumn 2, Issue 9, 2007, Pages

  Purves, Drew W ^a,b   Lichstein, Jeremy W ^a   Pacala, Stephen W ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOMETRY; ARTICLE; CANOPY; DATA ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; FOREST; FOREST DYNAMICS; FOREST SOIL; FOREST STRUCTURE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PLANT COMMUNITY; PLANT ECOLOGY; PLASTICITY; TREE CROWN; BIODIVERSITY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; NORTH AMERICA; PHYSIOLOGY; TREE;

BIODIVERSITY; NORTH AMERICA; TREES;

EID: 41149086137     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0000870     Document Type: Article

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