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Record W2603300332 · doi:10.5539/jps.v6n2p28

Allometric Dynamics in Branch Growth of Crape Myrtle

2017· article· en· W2603300332 on OpenAlex
Xiongwen Chen

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Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Plant Studies · 2017
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicTree Root and Stability Studies
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsAllometryMathematicsScalingTree (set theory)BiologyBotanyCombinatoricsGeometryEcology

Abstract

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Tree branches provide multiple functions in tree growth. It is necessary to study the allometric patterns of branches in order to understand some quantitative perspectives in tree growth. In this study, branches of seven crape myrtle trees (Lagerstroemia indica) were studied to examine allometric relationships in different times. The results indicated that the total basal area of branches at one order was far more than it at the next lower order (branches far from trunks). The scaling exponents of frequency distribution in both branch length and diameter decreased from above 1.0 in May to 0.1 in November as branches grew. The entropy of branch length and diameter both decreased at the beginning and then increased for all trees during the growing season. The observed entropy was always less than the maximum entropy. The average slenderness of branches was close to 20 for all trees. There were higher fluctuations in the slenderness within small or short branches (diameter less than 10 mm or length less than 100 cm). The scaling exponents between branch radius and length were concentrated at 1.0 for most trees. The correlation between the branch diameters of 1st order and the number of branches at 2nd order was not significant. The general trend and deviations in allometric relationships may help to understand the complexity in tree branch development.

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Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.007
Threshold uncertainty score0.323

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.029
GPT teacher head0.264
Teacher spread0.235 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it