Allometric patterns in Acer platanoides (Aceraceae) branches

Trees - Structure and Function

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 321-326

  Dahle, Gregory A ^a   Grabosky, Jason C ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Allometry; Branches; Elastic similarity; Length; Radius; Slenderness

Indexed keywords

ALLOMETRICS; BRANCH LENGTH; LINEAR RELATIONSHIPS; SIMILARITY MODELS; SLENDERNESS RATIOS;

ACER; ACER PLATANOIDES; SAPINDACEAE;

EID: 77952094808     PISSN: 09311890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00468-009-0401-5     Document Type: Article

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