The worldwide leaf economics spectrum

Nature

Volumn 428, Issue 6985, 2004, Pages 821-827

  Wright, Ian J ^a   Reich, Peter B ^b   Westoby, Mark ^a   Ackerly, David D ^c   Baruch, Zdravko ^d   Bongers, Frans ^e   Cavender Bares, Jeannine ^f   Chapin, Terry ^g   Cornellssen, Johannes H C ^h   Diemer, Matthias ⁱ   Flexas, Jaume ^j   Garnier, Eric ^k   Groom, Philip K ^l   Gulias, Javier ^j   Hikosaka, Kouki ^m   Lamont, Byron B ^l   Lee, Tall ⁿ   Lee, William ^o   Lusk, Christopher ^p   Midgley, Jeremy J ^q   Navas, Marie Laure ^k   Niinemets, Ülo ^r   Oleksyn, Jacek ^b,s   Osada, Horiyuki ^t   Poorter, Hendrik ^u   Pool, Pleter ^v   Prior, Lynda ^w   Pyankov, Vladimir I ^x   Roumet, Catherine ^k   Thomas, Sean C ^y   Tjoelker, Mark G ^z   Veneklaas, Erik J ^v   Villar, Rafael ^aa   more..

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSIDAD SIMÓN BOLÍVAR   (Venezuela)

^e WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^f SMITHSONIAN ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^h VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^j UNIVERSITAT DE LES ILLES BALEARS   (Spain)

^k CNRS   (France)

^l CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^m TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN EAU CLAIRE   (United States)

^o LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^p UNIVERSITY OF CONCEPCIÓN   (Chile)

^q UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^r UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^s INSTITUTE OF DENDROLOGY   (Poland)

^t UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^u UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^v UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^w CHARLES DARWIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^x URAL FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^y UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^z TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^aa UNIVERSITY OF CÓRDOBA   (Spain)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; INVESTMENTS; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; VEGETATION;

BIOME; LEAF ECONOMICS SPECTRUM;

BIODIVERSITY;

CLIMATE EFFECT; LAND USE; LEAF; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY;

ALLOMETRY; ARTICLE; BIOMASS; BIOME; CLIMATE CHANGE; DRY MASS; ECONOMICS; HUMAN; INFORMATION SCIENCE; INVESTMENT; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT GROWTH; PLANT LEAF; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEED PRODUCTION; VEGETATION;

BIOMASS; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; GEOGRAPHY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NUTRITION PHYSIOLOGY; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT LEAVES; RAIN;

EID: 11144357645     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02403     Document Type: Article

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