Extreme longevity in trees: Live slow, die old?

Oecologia

Volumn 165, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-5

  Issartel, Julien ^a   Coiffard, Clément ^b  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTION AND BIODIVERSITY SCIENCE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Leaves; Life span; Metabolism; Scaling; Senescence; Stems; Woody plants

Indexed keywords

FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; LONGEVITY; METABOLISM; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; RESPIRATION; SENESCENCE; SHRUB; VARIANCE ANALYSIS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 78650722761     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-010-1807-x     Document Type: Review

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