Lifetime leaf carbon balances of herbaceous perennial plants from low and high altitudes in the central Alps

Functional Ecology

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 33-43

  Diemer, M ^a   Korner Ch ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

Alpine; Construction costs; Elevation; Leaf life span; Photosynthesis

Indexed keywords

GEUM SPP.; POTENTILLA CRANTZII; RANUNCULUS SPP.; GEUM; RANUNCULUS;

ALPINE PLANT; CARBON BALANCE; LEAF GROWTH;

EUROPE, ALPS;

EID: 0029668103     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2390259     Document Type: Article

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