Is whole-plant photosynthetic rate proportional to leaf area? a test of scalings and a logistic equation by leaf demography census

American Naturalist

Volumn 173, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 640-649

  Koyama, Kohei ^a   Kikuzawa, Kihachiro ^a  

^a ISHIKAWA PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Allometry; Helianthus tuberosus (Jerusalem artichoke); Leaf demography; Logistic equation; Metabolic scaling theory; Whole plant photosynthesis

Indexed keywords

ALLOMETRY; DEMOGRAPHIC TREND; HERB; LEAF MORPHOLOGY; LIGHT EFFECT; METABOLISM; OPTIMIZATION; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT COMMUNITY; POPULATION DENSITY;

HELIANTHUS TUBEROSUS;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMETRY; HISTOLOGY; METABOLISM; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT LEAF; STATISTICAL MODEL; SUNFLOWER;

BIOMETRY; HELIANTHUS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT LEAVES;

EID: 67650264381     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/597604     Document Type: Article

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