Kasvusuhteisiin
Kasvusuhteisiin is a term used in Finnish scientific literature to describe the relationships that regulate biological growth under changing conditions. Etymologically, kasvu means growth and suhde means relation, reflecting the focus on how growth processes relate to environmental and internal factors. The concept is applied across ecology, agronomy, forestry, and developmental biology to summarize how growth rate responds to resource availability, population density, temperature, and time.
In practice, kasvusuhteisiin encompasses growth models and empirical response functions. Researchers quantify growth with curves such
Applications are wide: in agriculture to optimize inputs based on expected growth responses; in forestry to
Related concepts include growth curves, carrying capacity, Monod equation, and allometric scaling.