Water-use efficiency of a mallee eucalypt growing naturally and in short-rotation coppice cultivation

Plant and Soil

Volumn 262, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 111-128

  Wildy, Dan T ^a,b   Pate, John S ^a   Sefcik, Lesley T ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b PO Box 1891   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

alley farming; carbon isotope composition; carbon partitioning; semi arid environment; starch utilization; stomatal conductance

Indexed keywords

BUSHLAND; COPPICE; STOMATAL CONDUCTANCE; TREE; WATER USE EFFICIENCY;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; KALANNIE; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EUCALYPTUS;

EID: 4344654134     PISSN: 0032079X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:PLSO.0000037030.61945.0d     Document Type: Article

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