ArticlePNAS nexus2024
Forest demography and biomass accumulation rates are associated with transient mean tree size vs. density scaling relations.
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- A novel approach for sampling plant mass-density relationships.Fundamental research · 2026Article
- Demography, dynamics and data: building confidence for simulating changes in the world's forests.The New phytologist · 2025Article
- Tracking tree demography and forest dynamics at scale using remote sensing.The New phytologist · 2024Article
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Abstract
Linking individual and stand-level dynamics during forest development reveals a scaling relationship between mean tree size and tree density in forest stands, which integrates forest structure and function. However, the nature of this so-called scaling law and its variation across broad spatial scales remain unquantified, and its linkage with forest demographic processes and carbon dynamics remains elusive. In this study, we develop a theoretical framework and compile a broad-scale dataset of long-term sample forest stands (
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