Plant responses to heterogeneous environments: Scaling from shoot modules and whole-plant functions to ecosystem processes

Ecological Research

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 691-692

  Mori, Akira ^a   Niinemets, Ülo ^b  

^a YOKOHAMA NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b ESTONIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Estonia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; HETEROGENEITY; SHOOT;

EID: 77954459359     PISSN: 09123814     EISSN: 14401703     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11284-010-0696-0     Document Type: Article

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