Re-Expression of the Lorenz Asymmetry Coefficient on the Rotated and Right-Shifted Lorenz Curve of Leaf Area Distributions.

Yongxia Chen, Feixue Jiang, Christian Frølund Damgaard, Peijian Shi, Jacob Weiner

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Yongxia ChenCo-Innovation Center for Sustainable Forestry in Southern China, Bamboo Research Institute, College of Civil Engineering, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing 210037, China.

Feixue JiangCo-Innovation Center for Sustainable Forestry in Southern China, Bamboo Research Institute, College of Civil Engineering, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing 210037, China.

Christian Frølund DamgaardDepartment of Ecoscience Terrestrial Ecology, Aarhus University, 8000 Aarhus, Denmark.ORCID 0000-0003-3932-4312

Peijian ShiCo-Innovation Center for Sustainable Forestry in Southern China, Bamboo Research Institute, College of Civil Engineering, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing 210037, China.ORCID 0000-0003-4696-0130

Jacob WeinerDepartment of Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Thorvaldsensvej 40, 1871 Frederiksberg, Denmark.

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Abstract

The Gini coefficient, while widely used to quantify inequality in biological size distributions, lacks the capacity to resolve directional asymmetry inherent in Lorenz curves, a critical limitation for understanding skewed resource allocation strategies. To address this, we extend our prior geometric framework of the rotated and right-shifted Lorenz curve (RRLC) by introducing two original asymmetry metrics: the positional shift ratio (

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asymmetry measuresleaf area distributionsLorenz curveperformance equationShibataea chinensis Nakai

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PMID40364374

DOI10.3390/plants14091345

PMCPMC12073621

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