Plant biodiversity in a larch plantation from the view point of photosynthetic nitrogen use efficiency in northeast China

Landscape and Ecological Engineering

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 147-156

  Wang, Wen Jie ^a   Wang, Hui Mei ^a   Zu, Yuan Gang ^a  

^a NORTHEAST FORESTRY UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Larch plantation; Photosynthetic nitrogen use efficiency; Plant biodiversity; Raunkiaer lifeform; SLA

Indexed keywords

CRYPTOPHYTA; LARIX;

EID: 70350619488     PISSN: 18601871     EISSN: 1860188X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11355-009-0066-7     Document Type: Article

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