An allometry-based approach for understanding forest structure, predicting tree-size distribution and assessing the degree of disturbance

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 280, Issue 1751, 2013, Pages

  Anfodillo, Tommaso ^a   Carrer, Marco ^b,c   Simini, Filippo ^b   Popa, Ionel ^d   Banavar, Jayanth R ^e   Maritan, Amos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BUDAPEST UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND ECONOMICS   (Hungary)

^d Forest Research and Management Institute   (Romania)

^e Bldg 142   (United States)

Author keywords

Allometry; Finite size scaling; Old growth forests; Self thinning

Indexed keywords

ALLOMETRY; CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DISTURBANCE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FORESTRY; HUMAN ACTIVITY; MONTANE FOREST; OLD-GROWTH FOREST; PLANT COMMUNITY; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 84870437475     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2012.2375     Document Type: Article

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