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Growth curves of stem volume without bark were analyzed on the basis of theu-w diagram and the growth model equivalent to the Bertalanffy model. Some trees experienced several growth phases, in which characteristic values of growth changed. Presumable factors to cause the shifting of growth phase were discussed. In a 130-year-old sugi at Kaneyama in Yamagata Prefecture, estimated rates of anabolism and catabolism were related by a linear relationship with time delay of about 30 years.
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Hozumi, K. Analysis of growth curve of stem volume in some woody species using theu-w diagram. Bot. Mag. Tokyo 100, 87–97 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02488422
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