Plant height-crown radius and canopy coverage-density relationships determine above-ground biomass-density relationship in stressful environments

Biology Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 571-573

  Dai, Xinfeng ^a   Jia, Xin ^a   Zhang, Weiping ^a   Bai, Yanyuan ^a   Zhang, Junyan ^a   Wang, Yu ^b   Wang, Genxuan ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY CITY COLLEGE   (China)

Author keywords

Abiotic stress; Allometric growth; Aridity gradient; Geometric model; Self thinning

Indexed keywords

ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS; ALLOMETRY; ARIDITY; CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; DROUGHT STRESS; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; HEIGHT; NUMERICAL MODEL; SELF THINNING;

ALLOMETRY; ARTICLE; BIOMASS; CANOPY; CHINA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROUGHT STRESS; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; FIELD EXPERIMENT; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; PLANT GROWTH; PLANT HEIGHT; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

EID: 67749137345     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2009.0228     Document Type: Article

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