Examination of the Effects of Curvature in Geometrical Space on Accuracy of Scaling Derived Projections of Plant Biomass Units: Applications to the Assessment of Average Leaf Biomass in Eelgrass Shoots

Figure 7

Trends of mean response functions calculated from the retransformed outputs of polynomial (a) and biphasic models (b) involving the form of . We can observe a differentiation in trends relative to that of a power function fitted in directly by means of the nonlinear heteroscedastic protocol of (14). Although relative deviations manifest for the biphasic model, differences in mean response patterns are more clearly depicted for the polynomial choice.

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