Abstract
Architecture of evergreen broadleaf trees in evergreen warm-temperate and tropical forests was analyzed with a ratio (U/Ac) of total surface area of aboveground woody organs to leaf area (one-sided surface area) of each felled tree. The ratio,U/Ac, tended to decrease with the increasing ofdbh. There was little difference in a range of the ratio at eachdbh class between a warmtemperate forest and a tropical rainforest. The ratios of larger trees correlated with their relative growth rates ofdbh among similar sized trees. Canopy trees tended to stop their growth at some value of a ratio, a threshold value being about 1.5, irrespective of forest types. The threshold value showed the critical condition that annual respiration of woody organs of a tree consumed nearly all surplus production. On the basis of the pipe model, an ideal maximum tree height was considered with the ratio, and was estimated at 110 m and 70 m in a tropical rainforest and a warm-temperate forest, respectively.
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Abbreviations
- dbh :
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diameter at breast height of a tree
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Yoneda, T. Surface area of woody organs of an evergreen broadleaf forest tree in Japan and Southeast Asia. J. Plant Res. 106, 229–237 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02344590
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