Experimental evaluation of photosystem parameters and their role in the evolution of stand structure and deciduousness in response to palaeoclimate seasonality in Metasequoia glyptostroboides (Hu et Cheng)

The Evolution of Plant Physiology: From whole plants to ecosystems

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 427-445

  Vann, David R ^a   Williams, Christopher J ^a   LePage, Ben A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1016/B978-012339552-8/50022-6     Document Type: Chapter

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