A New Model for Size-Dependent Tree Growth in Forests.

Tree growth, especially diameter growth of tree stems, is an important issue for understanding the productivity and dynamics of forest stands. Metabolic scaling theory predicted that the 2/3 power of stem diameter at a certain time is a linear function of the 2/3 power of the initial diameter and th...

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Main Authors: Masae Iwamoto Ishihara, Yasuo Konno, Kiyoshi Umeki, Yasuyuki Ohno, Kihachiro Kikuzawa
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4817984?pdf=render