The role of plant resources in forest succession: Changes in radiation, water and nutrient fluxes, and plant productivity over a 300-yr-long chronosequence in NW-Germany

Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 103-147

  Leuschner, Christoph ^a   Rode, Michael W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KASSEL   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT AVAILABILITY; LIMITING FACTOR; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; PRODUCTIVITY; SUCCESSION;

GERMANY;

CALLUNA; CALLUNA VULGARIS; CONIFEROPHYTA; FAGUS; FAGUS SYLVATICA; QUERCUS; QUERCUS PETRAEA; RICKETTSIA SP. PAR; TRIXIS;

EID: 0032752920     PISSN: 14338319     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1078/1433-8319-00067     Document Type: Article

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