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Crown Plasticity and Competition for Canopy Space: A New Spatially Implicit Model Parameterized for 250 North American Tree Species

BACKGROUND: Canopy structure, which can be defined as the sum of the sizes, shapes and relative placements of the tree crowns in a forest stand, is central to all aspects of forest ecology. But there is no accepted method for deriving canopy structure from the sizes, species and biomechanical proper...

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Autores principales: Purves, Drew W., Lichstein, Jeremy W., Pacala, Stephen W.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2007
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1964803/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17849000
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0000870