Evolutionarily stable strategy carbon allocation to foliage, wood, and fine roots in trees competing for light and nitrogen: An analytically tractable, individual-based model and quantitative comparisons to data

American Naturalist

Volumn 177, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 153-166

  Dybzinski, Ray ^a   Farrior, Caroline ^a   Wolf, Adam ^b   Reich, Peter B ^c   Pacala, Stephen W ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

FLUXNET; Forest dynamics; Height structured competition; Optimal; Optimization; Perfect plasticity approximation (PPA)

Indexed keywords

CARBON; NITROGEN;

EVOLUTIONARILY STABLE STRATEGY; FOREST DYNAMICS; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; OPTIMIZATION; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; ROOT-SHOOT RATIO; SOIL NITROGEN; TRADE-OFF; UNDERSTORY;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; EVOLUTION; LIGHT; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT LEAF; PLANT ROOT; TREE; WOOD;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CARBON; LIGHT; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NITROGEN; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT ROOTS; TREES; WOOD;

EID: 79751521176     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/657992     Document Type: Article

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