Is bigger better in plants? The hydraulic costs of increasing size in trees

Trends in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 5-6

  Midgley, Jeremy J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEIGHT; HYDRAULICS; TREE; WATER RELATIONS;

EID: 0037223040     PISSN: 01695347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-5347(02)00016-2     Document Type: Short Survey

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