Correspondence of environmental tolerances with leaf and branch attributes for six co-occurring species of broadleaf evergreen trees in northern California

Trees - Structure and Function

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 169-175

  Hunter, J C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Branch architecture; Leaf anatomy; Leaf longevity; Leaf specific weight; Tree morphology

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031054581     PISSN: 09311890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004680050073     Document Type: Article

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