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Banksia ericifolia transgresses the self‐thinning boundary
Author(s) -
MORRIS E. C,
MYERSCOUGH P. J.
Publication year - 1983
Publication title -
australian journal of ecology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1442-9993
pISSN - 0307-692X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1442-9993.1983.tb01607.x
Subject(s) - thinning , shoot , banksia , biology , boundary line , botany , horticulture , boundary (topology) , mathematics , ecology , geometry , woodland , mathematical analysis
Self‐thinning B. ericifolia stands were observed to have high mean plant weights for their density, exceeding the upper boundary of the (log mean plant weight = 4.4–1.5 log mean plant density) line of White (1980) by approximately 0.5 units on the y scale (log mean weight per plant (g)). While proportion of shoot as stem and leaf area indices were similar in thinning stands of B. ericifolia and other species, specific leaf area was six to eight times less in the Banksia populations.