The ecology and economics of storage in plants

Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 1990, Pages 423-447

  Chapin III, F Stuart ^a   Schulze, Ernst Detlef ^b   Mooney, Harold A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Accumulation; Growth; Recycling; Reserve; Storage

Indexed keywords

GROWTH; PLANT BIOSYNTHESIS; STORAGE;

EID: 0025526820     PISSN: 00664162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.es.21.110190.002231     Document Type: Article

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