A test of the generality of leaf trait relationships on the Tibetan Plateau

New Phytologist

Volumn 170, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 835-848

  He, Jin Sheng ^a   Wang, Zhiheng ^a   Wang, Xiangping ^a   Schmid, Bernhard ^b   Zuo, Wenyun ^a   Zhou, Meng ^a   Zheng, Chengyang ^a   Wang, Mingfeng ^a   Fang, Jingyun ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Foliar nitrogen; Functional traits; Grassland; Leaf mass per area (LMA); Photosynthesis; Photosynthetic nitrogen use efficiency (PNUE)

Indexed keywords

NITROGEN; RAIN;

ALTITUDE; DATA MINING; ENVIRONMENT; EXTREME EVENT; NITROGEN; TOLERANCE;

ARTICLE; CHINA; CLIMATE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENVIRONMENT; GEOGRAPHY; HISTOLOGY; METABOLISM; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT LEAF; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

CLIMATE; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ENVIRONMENT; GEOGRAPHY; NITROGEN; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT LEAVES; RAIN; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TIBET;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 33646674042     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2006.01704.x     Document Type: Article

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