Morphometric, allometric, and developmentally adaptive traits in red spruce and black spruce. I. Species and seed-source variation

Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 885-896

  Major, John E ^a   Mosseler, Alex ^a   Barsi, Debby C ^a   Campbell, Moira ^a   Rajora, Om P ^b  

^a LAURENTIAN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; WATER; WOOD;

GERMINATION;

FORESTRY;

ADAPTATION; ALLOMETRY; BIOMASS ALLOCATION; GROWTH; INTERSPECIFIC VARIATION; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; MORPHOMETRY; SEED; SILVICULTURE; WATER RELATIONS;

PICEA; PICEA MARIANA; PICEA RUBENS;

EID: 0038133089     PISSN: 00455067     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/x03-049     Document Type: Article

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