A new mechanistic theory of self-thinning: Adaptive behaviour of plants explains the shape and slope of self-thinning trajectories
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2018.10.005
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Self-thinning; Biomass-density relationship; Scaling exponent; Individual-based modelling; Allometric plasticity; Resource limitation;All these keywords.
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