Impacts of water and nitrogen supplies on the physiology, leaf demography and nitrogen dynamics of Betula pendula

Tree Physiology

Volumn 16, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 153-159

  Wendler, Renate ^a   Millard, Peter ^a  

^a SCOTTISH CROP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Birch; Internal cycling; Leaf senescence; Remobilization; Water relations

Indexed keywords

BETULA PENDULA; PENDULA;

EID: 0000001524     PISSN: 0829318X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/treephys/16.1-2.153     Document Type: Article

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