Testing the Metabolic Scaling Theory of tree growth

Journal of Ecology

Volumn 97, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1369-1373

  Coomes, David A ^a,b   Allen, Robert B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

AIC; Asymmetric competition; Forests; Growth; Invariance; Meta analysis; Metabolic ecology model; Scaling; Scaling laws; SMA line fitting; Trees; Type II regression; WBE theory

Indexed keywords

ASYMMETRIC COMPETITION; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ECOLOGICAL THEORY; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; GROWTH CURVE; LIGHT AVAILABILITY; META-ANALYSIS; METABOLISM; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STEM;

CENTRAL AMERICA; COSTA RICA;

EID: 70349920699     PISSN: 00220477     EISSN: 13652745     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2745.2009.01571.x     Document Type: Article

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