Near isometric biomass partitioning in forest ecosystems of China

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Hui, Dafeng ^a   Wang, Jun ^b   Shen, Weijun ^b   Le, Xuan ^a   Ganter, Philip ^a   Ren, Hai ^b  

^a TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOMASS PARTITIONING; CHINA; DENSITY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FOREST; LATITUDE; LONGITUDE; PHYLOGENY; PLANT HEIGHT; PLANT PARAMETERS; PLANT ROOT; SHOOT; TREE AGE;

BIOMASS; CHINA; DATABASES, FACTUAL; ECOSYSTEM; GEOGRAPHY; TREES;

EID: 84899532063     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0086550     Document Type: Article

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