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Lianas (woody vines) are thought to allocate less biomass to stems than trees because they use trees for support and be deeper rooted than trees because they are more abundant in drier forests than in wetter forests. Here we show that lianas actually allocate proportionally similar amounts of biomass to stems as trees and that they have shallower roots than trees.

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This page is a summary of: Allometric scaling laws linking biomass and rooting depth vary across ontogeny and functional groups in tropical dry forest lianas and trees, New Phytologist, November 2019, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/nph.16275.
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