Responses to light changes in tropical deciduous woody seedlings with contrasting growth rates

Oecologia

Volumn 113, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 53-66

  Huante, Pilar ^a,b   Rincón, Emmanuel ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomass allocation; Growth analysis; Light transfers; Plasticity; Tropical deciduous forest

Indexed keywords

CAESALPINIA; CAESALPINIA ERIOSTACHYS; CELAENODENDRON; CELAENODENDRON MEXICANUM;

EID: 0031976325     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004420050353     Document Type: Article

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