Plastic response of crown architecture to crowding in understorey trees of two co-dominating conifers

Annals of Botany

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 159-164

  Takahashi, Koichi ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Abies; Crown form; Neighbourhood interference; Picea; Plasticity

Indexed keywords

ABIES SPP.; PICEA SPP.;

EID: 0030038330     PISSN: 03057364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbo.1996.0018     Document Type: Article

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