Relationships of tree height and diameter at breast height revisited: Analyses of stem growth using 20-year data of an even-aged Chamaecyparis obtusa stand

Tree Physiology

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 106-118

  Sumida, Akihiro ^a   Miyaura, Tomiyasu ^b   Torii, Hitoshi ^c  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b RYUKOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Chita Shoyo High School   (Japan)

Author keywords

Allometry; Crown rise; Linear mixed models; Pipe model theory; Stem form; Stem taper

Indexed keywords

ALLOMETRY; COMPENSATION; CONIFEROUS TREE; CROSS SECTION; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; DIAMETER; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; GROWTH RATE; HEIGHT; LONG-TERM CHANGE; STAND STRUCTURE; TREE;

ARTICLE; CHAMAECYPARIS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

CHAMAECYPARIS; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

CHAMAECYPARIS OBTUSA; CUPRESSUS;

EID: 84876377136     PISSN: 0829318X     EISSN: 17584469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/treephys/tps127     Document Type: Article

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