University of Nebraska - Lincoln DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln Faculty Publications in the Biological Sciences Papers in the Biological Sciences 2007 Growth-Size Scaling Relationships of Woody Plant Species Differ from Predictions of the Metabolic Ecology Model Sabrina E. Russo University of Nebraska - Lincoln,
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[email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/bioscifacpub Russo, Sabrina E.; Wiser, Susan K.; and Coomes, David A., "Growth-Size Scaling Relationships of Woody Plant Species Differ from Predictions of the Metabolic Ecology Model" (2007). Faculty Publications in the Biological Sciences. 263. https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/bioscifacpub/263 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Papers in the Biological Sciences at DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. It has been accepted for inclusion in Faculty Publications in the Biological Sciences by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. Published in Ecology Letters 10 (2007), pp. 889-901; doi: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2007.01079.x. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons Inc. Used by permission. Submitted February 15, 2007; accepted June 2, 2007. Growth-Size Scaling Relationships of Woody Plant Species Differ from Predictions of the Metabolic Ecology Model Sabrina E. Russo,1 Susan K. Wiser,2 and David A. Coomes1,2 1Conservation and Community Ecology Group, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, U.K. 2Landcare Research, Lincoln, New Zealand Corresponding author — S. E. Russo,
[email protected] Abstract The Metabolic Ecology Model predicts that tree diameter (D) growth (dD/dt) scales with D1/3.