Investigating leaf lifespans with interval-censored failure time analysis

New Phytologist

Volumn 158, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 593-600

  Dungan, Roger J ^a,b   Duncan, Richard P ^a   Whitehead, David ^b  

^a LINCOLN UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^b LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Aristotelia; Deciduous; Fuchsia; Leaf phenology; New Zealand; Survival analysis

Indexed keywords

FAILURE ANALYSIS; LEAF; LONGEVITY; SURVIVAL;

ARISTOTELIA; ARISTOTELIA SERRATA; FUCHSIA; RUBUS PHOENICOLASIUS;

EID: 0038121151     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1469-8137.2003.00772.x     Document Type: Article

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