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Chinese Journal of Applied Ecology ›› 2003, Vol. ›› Issue (4): 640-642.

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Fractal relationship between aboveground biomass and plant length or sheath height of Carex lasiocarpa population

HE Chiquan1, ZHAO Kuiyi2   

  1. 1. College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200072, China;
    2. Northeat Institute of Geography and Agricultural Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130021, China
  • Received:2000-11-07 Revised:2001-03-06

Abstract: By using the principles and methods of fractal geometry theory, the relationship between aboveground biomass and plant length or sheath height of Carex lasiocarpa population was studied. The results showed that there was a good static fractal relationship between them, and the resulted fractal dimension was an efficient description of the accumulation of aboveground biomass in each organ. The dynamic fractal relationship showed that during the whole growing season, the increase of aboveground biomass had a self-similarity, being a fractal growth process, and the pattern of its increase was the fractal dimension D. Based on these results, a fractal growth model of Carex lasiocarpa population was established, which regarded the bigger grass as the result of the amplification of seedling growth.

Key words: Wetland, Carex lasiocarpa population, Aboveground biomass, Plant height, Sheath height, Fractal dimension, rotifer, water environment, community structure., macrophyte

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