Seasonal patterns of foliage respiration in dominant and suppressed Eucalyptus globulus canopies

Tree Physiology

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 957-968

  O'Grady, A P ^a,b,c   Eyles, A ^a,c   Worledge, D ^b,c   Battaglia, M ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c CRC Forestry ^*  (Australia)

Author keywords

Eucalyptus; non structural carbohydrates; size class distributions; thermal acclimation

Indexed keywords

ACCLIMATION; CANOPY; CARBOHYDRATE; EVERGREEN TREE; FOLIAGE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SIZE STRUCTURE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; EUCALYPTUS; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT LEAF; SEASON;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ECOSYSTEM; EUCALYPTUS; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT TRANSPIRATION; SEASONS;

EUCALYPTUS; EUCALYPTUS GLOBULUS;

EID: 77955066467     PISSN: 0829318X     EISSN: 17584469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/treephys/tpq057     Document Type: Article

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