Seasonal variation in water relations of trees of differing leaf phenology in a wet-dry tropical savanna near darwin, Northern Australia

Australian Journal of Botany

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 225-240

  Myers, Bronwyn A ^a   Duff, G A ^a,b   Eamus, D ^a,b   Fordyce, I R ^a   O'Grady, A ^a   Williams, R J ^b,c  

^a CHARLES DARWIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering   (Australia)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAREYA; CLAVIGERA; COCHLOSPERMUM; COCHLOSPERMUM FRASERI; ERYTHROPHLEUM; ERYTHROPHLEUM CHLOROSTACHYS; EUCALYPTUS CLAVIGERA; EUCALYPTUS MINIATA; EUCALYPTUS TETRODONTA; PLANCHONIA; PLANCHONIA CAREYA; TERMINALIA; TERMINALIA FERDINANDIANA; XANTHOSTEMON; XANTHOSTEMON PARADOXUS;

EID: 0031009850     PISSN: 00671924     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/BT96015     Document Type: Conference Paper

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