Nitrogen productivity or photosynthesis minus respiration to calculate plant growth?

Oikos

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 529-535

  Ågren, Göran I ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHOTOSYNTHESIS; RESPIRATION;

BETULA; BETULACEAE;

EID: 0030304343     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3546346     Document Type: Article

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