The WBE theory proposed by West, Brown and Enquist predicts that larger plant respiration rate, R, scales to the three-quarters power of body size, M. However, studies on the R versus M relationship for larger plants (i.e. trees larger than saplings) have not been reported. Published respiration rates of field-grown trees (saplings and larger trees) were examined to test this relationship. Our ...

Evaluating associations and relationships between variable is a very challenging and important problem in the domain of medicine and clinical data analysis. Not many classification methods have been tried in the literature to tackle this problem. Decision Tree is one of the most important data mining methods that can be used, due to their property of implicitly performing variable screening or ...

Jivan C., Sala F., 2014. Relationship between tree nutritional status and apple quality. Hort. Sci. (Prague), 41: 1–9. Development of prediction models for the quality of apples is useful in guiding fruit tree nutrition and in optimising fruit management. The interrelationships between the leaf nutrient contents and some fruit quality indices were studied in five apple cultivars – Generos, Flor...

Suux arrays and suux binary search trees are two data structures that have been proposed as alternatives to the classical suux tree to facilitate eecient on-line string searching. Here, we explore the relationship between these two structures. In particular, we present an alternative view of a suux array, with its auxiliary information, as a perfectly balanced suux binary search tree, and descr...

This paper aims to review the recent developments that have been carried out in LRBB (Laboratory of Wood Rheology of Bordeaux, France) (Fourcaud et al., 2003c), in order to investigate tree stability. The role of the tree architecture in both root anchorage and aerial crown oscillation under aerodynamic loadings is shown. The interest of including these biomechanical factors in process based mo...

The past few decades have seen a resurgence of interest in biological allometry. Specifically, a number of recent studies has suggested a –4/3 invariant scaling relationship between mass and density that is universally valid for tree-dominated communities, regardless of their phyletic affiliation or habitat. In the present study, we test this scaling relationship using a comprehensive forest bi...

We consider the problem of finding all subtree repeats in a given unranked ordered tree. We show a new, elegant, and simple method, which is based on the construction of a tree indexing structure called the subtree pushdown automaton. We propose a solution for computing all subtree repeats from the deterministic subtree pushdown automaton constructed over the subject tree. The method we present...

The processes of gene duplication, loss, and lineage sorting can result in incongruence between the phylogenies of genes and those of species. This incongruence complicates the task of inferring the latter from the former. We describe the use of reconciled trees to reconstruct the history of a gene tree with respect to a species tree. Reconciled trees allow the history of the gene tree to be vi...