Patterns of shoot mortality in Betula platyphylla in northern Japan

Tree Physiology

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 623-632

  Umeki, Kiyoshi ^a   Seino, Tatsuyuki ^b   Lim, Eun Mi ^a   Honjo, Tsuyoshi ^a  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bud formation; Correlative inhibition; Crown development; Crown structure; Light conditions; Spatial pattern

Indexed keywords

CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; LOGISTICS; MORTALITY; PLANT; SHOOT;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JAPAN;

BETULA PLATYPHYLLA;

EID: 33646473375     PISSN: 0829318X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/treephys/26.5.623     Document Type: Article

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