Insights into plant size-density relationships from models and agricultural crops

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

Volumn 109, Issue 22, 2012, Pages 8600-8605

  Deng, Jianming ^a   Zuo, Wenyun ^b   Wang, Zhiqiang ^a   Fan, Zhexuan ^a   Ji, Mingfei ^a   Wang, Genxuan ^c   Ran, Jinzhi ^a   Zhao, Changming ^a   Liu, Jianquan ^a   Niklas, Karl J ^d   Hammond, Sean T ^b   Brown, James H ^b,e  

^a LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^c ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^e SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Allometric scaling; Energy equivalence; Plant energetics; Self thinning

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAMBOO; BIOMASS; CANOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROP; FOREST; HERB; NONHUMAN; PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY; PLANTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALGORITHMS; BIOMASS; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLANTS; POPULATION DENSITY; TREES;

EID: 84861903633     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1205663109     Document Type: Article

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