Self-similarity and scaling in forest communities

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 17, 2010, Pages 7658-7662

  Simini, Filippo ^a   Anfodillo, Tommaso ^a   Carrer, Marco ^a   Banavar, Jayanth R ^b   Maritan, Amos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Distribution of tree sizes; Energy equivalence principle; Finite size scaling; Metabolic efficiency; Tree shape

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMMUNITY ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOSYSTEM; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; ENERGY CONSUMPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; SYNECOLOGY; TROPICAL RAIN FOREST;

DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; ENERGY METABOLISM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 77952406725     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1000137107     Document Type: Article

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