Growth, leaf traits and litter decomposition of roadside hybrid aspen (Populus tremula L. x P. tremuloides Michx.) clones

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 159, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1823-1830

  Nikula, Suvi ^a   Manninen, Sirkku ^a   Vapaavuori, Elina ^b   Pulkkinen, Pertti ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Intraspecific variation; Leaf morphology; Litter decomposition; Populus; Road traffic

Indexed keywords

INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; LEAF MORPHOLOGY; LITTER DECOMPOSITION; POPULUS; ROAD TRAFFIC;

AIR QUALITY; CLONING; FORESTRY; PLANT EXTRACTS;

ROADSIDES;

CLONE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DECIDUOUS TREE; DECOMPOSITION; GENOTYPE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; GROWTH RATE; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; LEAF AREA; LEAF LITTER; LEAF MORPHOLOGY; MOTORWAY; NITROGEN; ROADSIDE ENVIRONMENT;

AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; ASPEN; CLONE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; GROWTH RATE; LEAF AREA; LEAF MORPHOLOGY; LITTER DECOMPOSITION; NITROGEN CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT CYCLING; PLANT HEIGHT; TRAFFIC; TREE GROWTH;

CHIMERA; ECOSYSTEM; HYBRIDIZATION, GENETIC; PLANT LEAVES; POPULUS;

AIR QUALITY; CLONES; EXTRACTIVES; FOLIAR ANALYSIS; FORESTRY; PLANTS; POPULUS TREMULA; POPULUS TREMULOIDES;

FINLAND;

POPULUS; POPULUS TREMULA; POPULUS TREMULA X POPULUS TREMULOIDES; POPULUS TREMULOIDES;

EID: 79956206064     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: 18736424     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2011.03.022     Document Type: Article

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