Testing the Growth Rate Hypothesis in Vascular Plants with Above- and Below-Ground Biomass
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Testing the Growth Rate Hypothesis in Vascular Plants with Above- and Below-Ground Biomass
The growth rate hypothesis (GRH) proposes that higher growth rate (the rate of change in biomass per unit biomass, μ) is associated with higher P concentration and lower C:P and N:P ratios. However, the applicability of the GRH to vascular plants is not well-studied and few studies have been done on belowground biomass. Here we showed that, for aboveground, belowground and total biomass of thre...
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عنوان ژورنال: PLoS ONE
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1932-6203
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0032162