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A Flexible Growth Function for Empirical Use

F. J. RICHARDS

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The application of an extended form of von Bertalanffy's growth function to plant data is considered; the equation has considerable flexibility, but is used only to supply an empirical fit. In order to aid the biological analysis of such growth data as are capable of representation by the function, general rate parameters are deduced which are related in a simple manner to its constants.

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Key concepts: Function (biology), Library science, Botany, Computer science, Biology, Evolutionary biology