On the general relationship between plant height and aboveground biomass of vegetation stands in contrasted ecosystems.

Ecological communities are unique assemblages of species that coexist in consequence of multi-causal processes that have proven hard to generalize. One possible exception are processes that control the biomass packing of vegetation stands; the amount of aboveground standing biomass expressed per uni...

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Autor principal:	Raphaël Proulx
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Publicado:	Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2021
Materias:	Medicine R Science Q
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:6700d6a1745646978881434cb8245f212021-12-02T20:05:31ZOn the general relationship between plant height and aboveground biomass of vegetation stands in contrasted ecosystems.1932-620310.1371/journal.pone.0252080https://doaj.org/article/6700d6a1745646978881434cb8245f212021-01-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0252080https://doaj.org/toc/1932-6203Ecological communities are unique assemblages of species that coexist in consequence of multi-causal processes that have proven hard to generalize. One possible exception are processes that control the biomass packing of vegetation stands; the amount of aboveground standing biomass expressed per unit volume. In this paper, I investigated the empirical and geometric underpinnings of biomass packing in terrestrial plant communities. I support that biomass packing in nature peaks around 1 kg m-3 across contrasted contexts, ranging from grasslands to forest ecosystems. Using published experimental and long-term survey data, I show that expressing biomass per unit volume cancels the effects of air temperature, species richness and soil fertility on aboveground stocks, thus providing a general comparative measure of storage efficiency in plant communities.Raphaël ProulxPublic Library of Science (PLoS)articleMedicineRScienceQENPLoS ONE, Vol 16, Iss 5, p e0252080 (2021)
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description	Ecological communities are unique assemblages of species that coexist in consequence of multi-causal processes that have proven hard to generalize. One possible exception are processes that control the biomass packing of vegetation stands; the amount of aboveground standing biomass expressed per unit volume. In this paper, I investigated the empirical and geometric underpinnings of biomass packing in terrestrial plant communities. I support that biomass packing in nature peaks around 1 kg m-3 across contrasted contexts, ranging from grasslands to forest ecosystems. Using published experimental and long-term survey data, I show that expressing biomass per unit volume cancels the effects of air temperature, species richness and soil fertility on aboveground stocks, thus providing a general comparative measure of storage efficiency in plant communities.
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title	On the general relationship between plant height and aboveground biomass of vegetation stands in contrasted ecosystems.
title_short	On the general relationship between plant height and aboveground biomass of vegetation stands in contrasted ecosystems.
title_full	On the general relationship between plant height and aboveground biomass of vegetation stands in contrasted ecosystems.
title_fullStr	On the general relationship between plant height and aboveground biomass of vegetation stands in contrasted ecosystems.
title_full_unstemmed	On the general relationship between plant height and aboveground biomass of vegetation stands in contrasted ecosystems.
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On the general relationship between plant height and aboveground biomass of vegetation stands in contrasted ecosystems.

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