Abstract:Conspicuously absent from plant allometric models are insect herbivores, despite their ubiquity in pantropical forests as well as the importance of gauging their impact on plant growth for understanding tree regeneration dynamics. Conceivably, the scaling relationships of plant populations with and without exposure to insects could be compared to gain insight, but this has yet to be tried. Here, I examined the size allometry of three canopy‐statured species (Fabaceae) by fitting standard major axis regressions… Show more
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