The relationships of wood-, gas- and water fractions of tree stems to performance and life history variation in tropical trees

Annals of Botany

Volumn 102, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 367-375

  Poorter, Lourens ^a,b  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b Instituto Boliviano de Investigacion Forestal Bolivia   (Bolivia)

Author keywords

Adult stature; Biomechanics; Bolivia; Second moment of area; Shade tolerance; Tropical rain forest; Wood density; Wood specific gravity

Indexed keywords

WATER;

BIOMECHANICS; GAS; GRAVITY; GROWTH RATE; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; RAINFOREST; REGENERATION; SAPLING; SHADE TOLERANCE; STEM; SURVIVAL; TRADE-OFF; TROPICAL FOREST; WOOD;

ARTICLE; BOLIVIA; CHEMISTRY; GAS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LIGHT; PLANT STEM; TREE; TROPIC CLIMATE; WOOD;

BOLIVIA; GASES; LIGHT; PLANT STEMS; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE; WATER; WOOD;

EID: 49749087509     PISSN: 03057364     EISSN: 10958290     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcn103     Document Type: Article

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