Tree Shape Index
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Robert Noble and Kimberley Verity. A new universal system of tree shape indices. bioRvix, 2023. will allow us to potentially being to draw conclusions about the process the trees are from in the context of the index values. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.07.17.549219