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ArticleFrontiers in plant science2025

Linking the Weibull distribution to Gini coefficients: a bamboo specific framework for intra-culm leaf area inequality.

Zhifei Jiao, Shuai Liu, Karl J Niklas, Christian Frølund Damgaard, Weihao Yao, Meng Lian, Feixue Jiang, Peijian Shi

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Article in Frontiers in plant science, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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Zhifei JiaoBamboo Research Institute, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing, China.
Shuai LiuCollege of Ecology and Environment, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing, China.
Karl J NiklasSchool of Integrative Plant Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States.
Christian Frølund DamgaardDepartment of Ecoscience, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.
Weihao YaoBamboo Research Institute, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing, China.
Meng LianBamboo Research Institute, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing, China.
Feixue JiangBamboo Research Institute, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing, China.
Peijian ShiBamboo Research Institute, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing, China.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Quantifying inequality in the leaf area distribution within a single module is critical for elucidating plant resource allocation strategies, but the accuracy of theoretical Gini coefficients derived from statistical distributions remains poorly validated against observed values. To resolve this gap, we analyzed 9,242 leaves from 121 culms of the bamboo

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distribution functionGini coefficientleaf areaLorenz curvemaximum likelihood methodscale parameter

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