Unique responses of respiration, growth, and non-structural carbohydrate storage in sink tissue of conifer seedlings to an elevation gradient at timberline

Environmental and Experimental Botany

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 313-319

  Bansal, Sheel ^a   Germino, Matthew J ^a  

^a Nucl Eng Idaho State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Abies lasiocarpa; Carbon balance; Pseudotsuga menziesii; Relative growth rate; Starch; Timberline

Indexed keywords

CARBOHYDRATE; CARBON BALANCE; CARBON SINK; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONIFEROUS TREE; ECOPHYSIOLOGY; EVERGREEN TREE; GROWING SEASON; GROWTH RATE; LOW TEMPERATURE; PHYTOMASS; RESPIRATION; STARCH; TREELINE;

ABIES; ABIES LASIOCARPA; CONIFEROPHYTA; PSEUDOTSUGA; PSEUDOTSUGA MENZIESII;

EID: 77954032487     PISSN: 00988472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envexpbot.2010.05.002     Document Type: Article

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