Species-specific and ontogeny-related stem allometry of European forest trees: Evidence from extensive stem analyses

Forest Science

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 290-302

  Pretzsch, Hans ^a   Dauber, Erhard ^a   Biber, Peter ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Allometric growth; Euclidian geometric scaling; Fractal scaling; Metabolic theory of ecology; Morphological plasticity

Indexed keywords

ALLOMETRIC GROWTH; EUROPEAN BEECH (FAGUS SYLVATICA L.); FRACTAL SCALING; GEOMETRIC SCALING; INDIVIDUAL STRUCTURES; INTRASPECIFIC VARIABILITY; NORWAY SPRUCE (PICEA ABIES [L.] KARST.); SCALING RELATIONSHIPS;

ECOLOGY; METABOLISM; PLANTS (BOTANY);

FORESTRY;

ECOLOGY; FORESTRY; METABOLISM; PLANTS;

EID: 84879438128     PISSN: 0015749X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5849/forsci.11-102     Document Type: Article

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