Inequality Measure of Leaf Area Distribution for a Drought-Tolerant Landscape Plant.

ABSTRACT: Measuring the inequality of leaf area distribution per plant (ILAD) can provide a useful tool for quantifying the influences of intra- and interspecific competition, foraging behavior of herbivores, and environmental stress on plants' above-ground architectural structures and survival strategies. Despite its importance, there has been limited research on this issue. This paper aims to fill this gap by comparing four inequality indices to measure ILAD, using indices for quantifying household income that are commonly used in economics, including the Gini index (which is based on the Lorenz curve), the coefficient of variation, the Theil index, and the mean log deviation index. We measured the area of all leaves for 240 individual plants of the species Shibataea chinensis Nakai, a drou

SUBMITTER: Huang L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10490070 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature