Partitioning the components of relative growth rate: How important is plant size variation?

American Naturalist

Volumn 176, Issue 6, 2010, Pages

  Rees, Mark ^a   Osborne, Colin P ^a   Woodward, F Ian ^a   Hulme, Stephen P ^a   Turnbull, Lindsay A ^b   Taylor, Samuel H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Growth analysis; Nonlinear mixed models; Relative growth rate; Variance decomposition

Indexed keywords

DECOMPOSITION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GROWTH RATE; NONLINEARITY; PARTITIONING; PLANT; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PLANT; PLANT LEAF; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; PLANT LEAVES; PLANTS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 78649697371     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/657037     Document Type: Article

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