Leaf longevity as a normalization constant in allometric predictions of plant production.

In metabolic scaling theory the size-dependence of plant processes is described by a power function of form Y=Y o M (θ) where Y is a characteristic such as plant productivity that changes with plant size (M) raised to the θ (th) power and Y o is a normalization constant that adjusts the general rela...

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Main Authors: Kihachiro Kikuzawa, Kenji Seiwa, Martin J Lechowicz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3849297?pdf=render