Stable isotopes in plant ecology

Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics

Volumn 33, Issue , 2002, Pages 507-559

  Dawson, Todd E ^a   Mambelli, Stefania ^a   Plamboeck, Agneta H ^a   Templer, Pamela H ^a   Tu, Kevin P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Integrators; Methods; Plant environment interactions; Resources; Scaling; Tracers

Indexed keywords

ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; NUTRIENT UPTAKE; PLANT; STABLE ISOTOPE; TRACER;

EID: 0036915063     PISSN: 00664162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.ecolsys.33.020602.095451     Document Type: Review

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