Dry mass costs of deploying leaf area in relation to leaf size

Functional Ecology

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 88-97

  Pickup, M ^a,b   Westoby, M ^a   Basden, A ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Leaf area ratio; Leaf mass fraction; Leaf size; Plant architecture; Wood density

Indexed keywords

DRY DENSITY; LEAF AREA; PLANT ARCHITECTURE;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

TRIXIS;

EID: 16844374402     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0269-8463.2005.00927.x     Document Type: Article

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