Competition increasingly dominates the responsiveness of juvenile beech and spruce to elevated CO2/O3 concentrations throughout two subsequent growing seasons

Global Change Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1387-1401

  Kozovits, Alessandra R ^a,b   Matyssek, Rainer ^a   Blaschke, Helmut ^a   Göttlein, Axel ^a   Grams, Thorsten E E ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRASILIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Allometry; European beech (Fagus sylvatica); Interspecific competition; Norway spruce (Picea abies); Partitioning; Whole plant nitrogen status

Indexed keywords

ALLOMETRY; BIOMASS ALLOCATION; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION;

FAGUS; FAGUS SYLVATICA; PICEA; PICEA ABIES;

EID: 21944456039     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2005.00993.x     Document Type: Article

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