Annals of Botany 71: 131-134, 1993
© 1993 Annals of Botany Company
The Influence of the Arrangement of Neighbours on the Spatial Component of Resource Capture by an Individual Plant in Even-aged Monocultures
Statistic Directorate, Department of Transport, Romney House, 43 Marsham Street, London SW1P 3PY and Horticulture Research International, Wellesbourne Warwick CV35 9EF, UK
Data from experiments using extensive row-spacing treatments (Benjamin and Sutherland, 1992) were analysed to indicate that morphological responses to micro-spatial heterogeneity in resource level are important in determining the growth response of field-grown carrot plants to the spatial distribution of neighbours. This information is important for the simulation of the growth of individual plants in response to the presence of neighbours.Copyright 1993, 1999 Academic Press
Crop yield, plant weight, plant density, plant spacing, plant arrangement, row crop, carrot, Daucus carota L., mathematical model, neighbourhood