Plant ecological strategies: Some leading dimensions of variation between species

Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics

Volumn 33, Issue , 2002, Pages 125-159

  Westoby, Mark ^a   Falster, Daniel S ^a   Moles, Angela T ^a   Vesk, Peter A ^a   Wright, Ian J ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Foliage height; Leaf lifespan; Leaf mass per area; Leaf size; Seed mass; Twig size

Indexed keywords

BIOMETRY; ECOLOGY; LEAF AREA; PLANT; PLANT ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 0036929641     PISSN: 00664162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.ecolsys.33.010802.150452     Document Type: Review

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