Aditya Raghavan

Abstract: Tree aspect ratios have been show to be of significance in field ecology and plant allometry. An understanding of why it is imperative for a particular species of trees to grow the way it does, is warranted. We suggest a model that ascribes...

Given the vast amount of fieldwork data that exists for tropical plant and tree communities, it is of foremost interest to develop a mechanistic model to describe plant population dynamics. Since tropical forests not only have a large number of...