Relationships among RNA DNA ratio, growth and elemental stoichiometry in mangrove trees

Functional Ecology

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1064-1072

  Reef, Ruth ^a   Ball, Marilyn C ^b   Feller, Ilka C ^c   Lovelock, Catherine E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c SMITHSONIAN ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

C N P; Ecostoichiometry; Growth rate hypothesis; Nutrients; Plant; Shoot elongation

Indexed keywords

DNA; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; FERTILIZER APPLICATION; GROWTH RATE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; INTERSPECIFIC VARIATION; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; MANGROVE; PHYTOMASS; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; RNA; SHOOT; STOICHIOMETRY;

AVICENNIA; AVICENNIA MARINA; CERIOPS AUSTRALIS;

EID: 78149337602     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: 13652435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2435.2010.01722.x     Document Type: Article

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