Growth and architecture of juvenile carpodetus serratus in closed forest canopy and canopy gap environments

New Zealand Journal of Botany

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 485-493

  Day, Jamie S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Architecture; Carpodetus serratus; Divaricate shrub; Light capture; Multilayer leaf arrangement; Periodic growth; Phenotypic plasticity

Indexed keywords

CANOPY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; FOLIAGE; LIGHT HARVESTING COMPLEX; PHOTOPERIODICITY; PLANT GROWTH;

GROWTH; JUVENILE; LIGHT EFFECT; PLANT ARCHITECTURE;

CARPODETUS SERRATUS;

EID: 0032405708     PISSN: 0028825X     EISSN: 11758643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0028825X.1998.9512587     Document Type: Article

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