Competitive regulation of plant allometry and a generalized model for the plant self-thinning process

Bulletin of Mathematical Biology

Volumn 66, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1875-1885

  Wang, Gang ^a   Yuan, Jianli ^a   Wang, Xizhi ^b   Xiao, S A ^a   Huang, Wenbing ^c  

^a LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Department of Highway   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TREE;

MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION CONTROL; TREES;

EID: 7444230446     PISSN: 00928240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bulm.2004.04.005     Document Type: Article

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