Plant Interactions Alter the Predictions of Metabolic Scaling Theory

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Lin, Yue ^a,b   Berger, Uta ^a   Grimm, Volker ^b,c   Huth, Franka ^a   Weiner, Jacob ^d  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOMASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; METABOLIC SCALING THEORY; NONHUMAN; PLANT DENSITY; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; PLANT ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; PLANT GROWTH; PLANT METABOLISM; PLANT RESPONSE; PREDICTION; THEORY;

ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLANTS; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 84874515387     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0057612     Document Type: Article

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