Plant energetics and population density - Reply

被引：14

作者：

Enquist, BJ ^{[1
]}

Brown, JH

West, GB

机构：

[1] Univ New Mexico, Dept Biol, Albuquerque, NM 87131 USA

[2] Santa Fe Inst, Santa Fe, NM 87501 USA

[3] Univ Calif Los Alamos Natl Lab, Div Theoret, Los Alamos, NM 87545 USA

来源：

NATURE | 1999年 / 398卷 / 6728期

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D O I：

10.1038/19219

中图分类号：

O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];

学科分类号：

07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;

摘要：

Enquist et al.1 present an interesting analysis of the link between plant size, allometry and mortality. But I believe that their claim that it has a functional basis is misleading when it is scaled up to whole populations.

引用

页码：573 / 573

页数：1

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