Plant physiological ecology of tropical forest canopies

Trends in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 11, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 408-412

  Mulkey, Stephen S ^a   Kitajima, Kaoru ^b   Wright, S Joseph ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

^b SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANOPY; GAS EXCHANGE; TROPICAL FOREST;

EID: 0030482478     PISSN: 01695347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0169-5347(96)10043-4     Document Type: Review

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