Toward synthesis of relationships among leaf longevity, instantaneous photosynthetic rate, lifetime leaf carbon gain, and the gross primary production of forests

American Naturalist

Volumn 168, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 373-383

  Kikuzawa, Kihachiro ^a   Lechowicz, Martin J ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Functional leaf longevity; Gross primary production; Leaf longevity; Lifetime leaf carbon gain; Mean labor time of a leaf

Indexed keywords

CARBON;

ASSIMILATION EFFICIENCY; CARBON BALANCE; CLIMATE CHANGE; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; HARVESTING; LEAF; LONGEVITY; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT COMMUNITY; PRIMARY PRODUCTION;

ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; METABOLISM; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT LEAF; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TIME; TREE;

CARBON; ECOSYSTEM; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT LEAVES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS; TREES;

EID: 33748760392     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/506954     Document Type: Article

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