Spatial trends in leaf size of amazonian rainforest trees

Biogeosciences

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1563-1576

  Malhado, A C M ^a   Malhi, Y ^a   Whittaker, R J ^a   Ladle, R J ^a   Ter Steege, H ^b   Phillips, O L ^c   Butt, N ^a   Aragao L E O C ^a   Quesada, C A ^c   Araujo Murakami, A ^d   Arroyo, L ^d   Peacock, J ^c   Lopez Gonzalez, G ^c   Baker, T R ^c   Anderson, L O ^a   Almeida, S ^e   Higuchi, N ^f   Killeen, T J ^g   Monteagudo, A ^h   Neill, D ⁱ   Pitman, N ^j   Prieto, A ^k   Salomao R P ^e   Vasquez Martinez R ^h   Laurance, W F ^f   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^d Museo Noel Kempff Mercado   (Bolivia)

^e MUSEU PARAENSE EMÍLIO GOELDI   (Brazil)

^f INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA   (Brazil)

^g Betty and Gordon Moore Center for Science and Oceans   (United States)

^h UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE SAN ANTONIO ABAD DEL CUSCO   (Peru)

ⁱ Herbario Nacional Del Ecuador   (Ecuador)

^j DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^k INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIÓN DE RECURSOS BIOLÓGICOS ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT   (Colombia)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DECIDUOUS FOREST; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; LEAF AREA; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; RAINFOREST; SOIL FERTILITY; TRANSPIRATION; WATER AVAILABILITY;

AMAZONIA; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 69249103853     PISSN: 17264170     EISSN: 17264189     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/bg-6-1563-2009     Document Type: Article

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