Functional relationships between crown morphology and within-crown characteristics of understory saplings of three codominant conifers in a subalpine forest in central Japan

Tree Physiology

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 661-670

  Mori, Akira ^a   Takeda, Hiroshi ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Abies mariesii; Abies veitchii; Allocation; Branch growth; Light regime; Needle life span; Picea jezoensis var. hondoensis; Plasticity

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS ALLOCATION; CANOPY; CONIFEROUS FOREST; LIGHT AVAILABILITY; PLANT ARCHITECTURE; UNDERSTORY;

ABIES; ABIES MAGNIFICA; ABIES MARIESII; ABIES VEITCHII; CONIFEROPHYTA; PICEA; PICEA JEZOENSIS; PICEA JEZOENSIS VAR. HONDOENSIS;

EID: 4544385070     PISSN: 0829318X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/treephys/24.6.661     Document Type: Article

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