Cross-species relationships between seedling relative growth rate, nitrogen productivity and root vs leaf function in 28 Australian woody species

Functional Ecology

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 97-107

  Wright, I J ^a   Westoby, M ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Functional balance; Net assimilation rate; Specific leaf area

Indexed keywords

FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; GROWTH RATE; INTERSPECIFIC VARIATION; LEAF; NITROGEN; PRODUCTIVITY; ROOT; WOODY PLANT;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0034042208     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2435.2000.00393.x     Document Type: Article

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