Plant growth rates and seed size: a re-evaluation
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Plant growth rates and seed size: a re-evaluation.
Small-seeded plant species are often reported to have high relative growth rate or RGR. However, because RGR declines as plants grow larger, small-seeded species could achieve higher RGR simply by virtue of their small size. In contrast, size-standardized growth rate or SGR factors out these size effects. Differences in SGR can thus only be due to differences in morphology, allocation, or physi...
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عنوان ژورنال: Ecology
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0012-9658
DOI: 10.1890/11-0261.1