Shrubs have greater stem cross-section and associated tissue areas than small trees of equal woody volume.

Claim · model-written summary

Shrubs have greater stem cross-section and associated tissue areas than small trees of equal woody volume.

Taxon

shrube0

Outcome

larger cross-sectional stem areae0

Direction

largere0

Comparator

small treee0

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Verbatim

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“a shrub compared to a small tree with the same above-ground woody volume, based on larger cross-sectional stem area (Fig. 2b), larger area of photosynthetic tissue in bark and stem, larger vascular cambium area, larger epidermis (bark) area (Fig. 2c) and larger area for sprouting”