The objective of this work was to compare several commonly used measures of tree performance in three commercially grown pine species (Pinus patula, P. taeda and P. elliottii) during the first growth season in a weeding ...

We address the question of whether the spatial distribution of root biomass mirrors the highly clumped distribution of shoot biomass in two desert plant communities (short and medium strandveld) on the west coast of South ...

This paper investigates of the spatial arrangement of individual plants in mapped plots in two desert communities in the winter rainfall region of South Africa. In both communities there was a very strong tendency towards ...