Height-related growth declines in ponderosa pine are not due to carbon limitation

Plant, Cell and Environment

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 22-30

  Sala, Anna ^a   Hoch, Günter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Carbon source sink relations; Height related growth; Hydraulic limitation hypothesis; Lipids; Mobile carbon reserves; Non structural carbohydrate; Pinus ponderosa

Indexed keywords

CARBOHYDRATE; CARBON; NITROGEN; WATER;

CARBOHYDRATE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CARBON SINK; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CONIFEROUS TREE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GAS EXCHANGE; GROWTH RESPONSE; HEIGHT; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; LIPID; NUTRIENT LIMITATION; WATER AVAILABILITY;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ECOSYSTEM; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PONDEROSA PINE; TREE; UNITED STATES;

CARBOHYDRATES; CARBON; CARBON ISOTOPES; ECOSYSTEM; MONTANA; NITROGEN; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PINUS PONDEROSA; TREES; WATER;

PINUS PONDEROSA;

EID: 57249103722     PISSN: 01407791     EISSN: 13653040     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3040.2008.01896.x     Document Type: Article

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