Self-shading affects allometric scaling in trees

Functional Ecology

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 723-730

  Duursma, Remko A ^a   Mäkelä, Annikki ^a   Reid, Douglas E B ^b   Jokela, Eric J ^c   Porté, Annabel J ^d   Roberts, Scott D ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b ONTARIO MINISTRY OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^d BORDEAUX SCIENCES AGRO   (France)

^e MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Allometry; Metabolic scaling theory; Plant architecture; Self shading

Indexed keywords

ALLOMETRY; BIOMASS; BODY SIZE; CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; DATA SET; FOLIAGE; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; GYMNOSPERM; LIGHT EFFECT; METABOLISM; SHADING;

GYMNOSPERMAE;

EID: 78751677451     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: 13652435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2435.2010.01690.x     Document Type: Article

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