Characterstics of seasonal variations of leaf n-alkanes and n-alkenes in modern higher plants in Qingjiang, Hubei Province, China

Chinese Science Bulletin

Volumn 53, Issue 17, 2008, Pages 2659-2664

  Cui, JingWei ^a   Huang, JunHua ^a   Xie, ShuCheng ^a  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Average chain length; Carbon preference index; Environmental change; N alkanes; N alkenes

Indexed keywords

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EID: 50849095195     PISSN: 10016538     EISSN: 18619541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11434-008-0194-8     Document Type: Article

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