What is self thinning in plants?
Score: 4.9/5 (66 votes) 1.1. The Self-Thinning Rule. Self-thinning, depicted in Figure 1A, describes a natural process in a single stand whereby the number of plants per unit area (p) decreases as average plant (or mean individual) above-ground weight (w) increases as time t progresses.What is the s...