Air temperature and soil phosphorus availability correlate with trait differences between two types of tropical cloud forests

Flora: Morphology, Distribution, Functional Ecology of Plants

Volumn 206, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 896-903

  Long, Wenxing ^a   Zang, Runguo ^a   Ding, Yi ^a  

^a RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF FORESTRY   (China)

Author keywords

Community level; Environmental conditions; Plant height; Soil nutrients; Specific leaf area

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLOUD FOREST; CORRELATION; EVERGREEN FOREST; LEAF AREA; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PHOSPHORUS; PLANT COMMUNITY; SOIL NUTRIENT; TROPICAL FOREST;

CHINA; HAINAN;

EID: 80053439209     PISSN: 03672530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.flora.2011.05.007     Document Type: Article

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