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General allometric scaling of net primary production agrees with plant adaptive strategy theory and has tipping points

2017-07-01

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Allometric scaling of net primary production (NPP) with plant biomass (B) is important to ecological carbon dynamics and energetics. Metabolic theory predicts a nonlinear power law for NPP scaling, based on fractal vascular systems, resulting in a linear model when using log NPP/log B axes that are standard in allometry. Alternatively, two other hypotheses predict nonlinear models for log‐transformed data, with po...

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Literature Corpus work: 70f4c4b3-8d6c-5a64-a91b-f0acaedd57c9
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2745.12726

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