Annual rainfall does not directly determine the carbon isotope ratio of leaves of Eucalyptus species

Physiologia Plantarum

Volumn 132, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 440-445

  Turner, Neil C ^a   Schulze, Ernst Detlef ^b   Nicolle, Dean ^c   Schumacher, Jens ^b   Kuhlmann, Iris ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOGEOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^c Currency Creek Eucalyptus Research   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; RAIN;

ARTICLE; EUCALYPTUS; METABOLISM; PLANT LEAF;

CARBON ISOTOPES; EUCALYPTUS; PLANT LEAVES; RAIN;

EUCALYPTUS;

EID: 40549106849     PISSN: 00319317     EISSN: 13993054     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3054.2007.01027.x     Document Type: Article

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