Modeling forest stand dynamics from optimal balances of carbon and nitrogen

Evolutionarily Stable Strategy Carbon Allocation to Foliage, Wood, and Fine Roots in Trees Competing for Light and Nitrogen: An Analytically Tractable, Individual-Based Model and Quantitative Comparisons to Data

(2011) Ray Dybzinski et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Self-shading affects allometric scaling in trees

(2010) Remko A. Duursma et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Maximum entropy production and plant optimization theories

(2010) R. C. Dewar   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Optimal Function Explains Forest Responses to Global Change

(2009) Roderick C. Dewar et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Plant competition and exclusion with optimizing individuals

(2009) David Finnoff et al.   JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY

Why is plant-growth response to elevated CO2amplified when water is limiting, but reduced when nitrogen is limiting? A growth-optimisation hypothesis

(2008) Ross E. McMurtrie et al.   FUNCTIONAL PLANT BIOLOGY

Optimal co-allocation of carbon and nitrogen in a forest stand at steady state

(2008) Annikki Mäkelä et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST