Allometry of some woody plant species in a Brazilian savanna after two years of a dry season fire

Studies of allometry are important in explaining effects of fire and herbivory, for estimating biomass in forests, and so on. There has been extensive research on plant allometry in temperate and tropical forests, showing that plant architecture often adjusts to the elastic similarity model, but not...

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Main Authors: P. Dodonov, IC Lucena, MB Leite, DM Silva Matos
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Instituto Internacional de Ecologia
Series:Brazilian Journal of Biology
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1519-69842011000300025&lng=en&tlng=en