Correlations between carbon isotope discrimination and climate of native habitats for diverse eucalypt taxa growing in a common garden

Australian Journal of Plant Physiology

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 311-320

  Anderson, Jay E ^a   Williams, Jann ^b   Kriedemann, Paul E ^c   Austin, Michael P ^c   Farquhar, Graham D ^b  

^a Nucl Eng Idaho State University   (United States)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EUCALYPTUS; MYRTACEAE;

ADAPTATION; CLIMATE;

AUSTRALIA, NEW SOUTH WALES;

EID: 0030448023     PISSN: 03107841     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/PP9960311     Document Type: Article

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