Leaf value: Effects of damage to individual leaves on growth and reproduction of mountain birch shoots

Ecology

Volumn 78, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 2105-2117

  Ruohomäki, Kai ^a   Haukioja, Erkki ^a   Repka, Sari ^a,b   Lehtilä, Kari ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^b NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

^c STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Carbon; Compensatory ability; Generative and vegetative shoots; Independence of modules; Leaf value; Local leaf damage; Modularity; Mountain birch; Northern Finland; Simulated herbivory; Source sink hypothesis

Indexed keywords

GROWTH; HERBIVORY; LEAF DAMAGE; MOUNTAIN BIRCH; REPRODUCTION; SIMULATED HERBIVORY;

FINLAND;

BETULA PUBESCENS CZEREPANOVII; BETULACEAE;

EID: 0031284554     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(1997)078[2105:LVEODT]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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