Scaling relationship between tree respiration rates and biomass

Biology Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 715-717

  Cheng, Dong Liang ^a   Li, Tao ^b   Zhong, Quan Lin ^a   Wang, Gen Xuan ^c  

^a FUJIAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Allometry; Respiration rates; Tree biomass; WBE theory

Indexed keywords

ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS; ALLOMETRY; DATA SET; RESPIRATION; SAPLING; TREE;

EID: 77958504117     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2010.0070     Document Type: Article

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