Towards a Universal Law of Tree Morphometry by Combining Fractal Geometry and Statistical Physics
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This article aims at establishing a very general law of plant organization. By introducing the notion of hydraulic lengths which are considered as the coordinates of a symbolic space with n-dimensions, a reasoning of statistical physics, derived from Maxwell’s method, and combining with the fractal geometry leads to a law of hydraulics lengths distribution which could appear very general because it is the remarkable gamma law form
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تاریخ انتشار 2002