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Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA Vol. 95, pp. 7830–7835, June 1998 Plant Biology The interspecific mass–density relationship and plant geometry (allometryevolutionary comparative analysisinterspecific scaling) MIGUEL FRANCO * AND COLLEEN K. KELLY† Departamento de Ecologı´a Evolutiva, Instituto de Ecologı´a, Universidad Nacional Auto´noma de Me´xico, Apartado Postal 70-275, 04510 Coyoacan, Distrito Federal, Mexico Communicated by Richard Southwood, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, March 10, 1998 (received for review April 10, 1997) ABSTRACT We present an a