Photosynthetic parameters, dark respiration and leaf traits in the canopy of a Peruvian tropical montane cloud forest

Oecologia

Volumn 168, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 23-34

  van de Weg, Martine Janet ^a,c   Meir, Patrick ^a   Grace, John ^a   Ramos, Guilmair Damian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE SAN ANTONIO ABAD DEL CUSCO   (Peru)

^c MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

A C i curves; Leaf mass per area; Nitrogen; Phosphorus; V cmax

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS; RIBULOSEBISPHOSPHATE CARBOXYLASE;

BIOME; CANOPY; CLOUD FOREST; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; LEAF MORPHOLOGY; LOWLAND ENVIRONMENT; MONTANE FOREST; NITROGEN; NUTRIENT LIMITATION; NUTRIENT USE EFFICIENCY; PARAMETERIZATION; PHOSPHORUS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; RESPIRATION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT;

ARTICLE; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; HISTOLOGY; METABOLISM; ORGAN SIZE; PERU; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT LEAF; TEMPERATURE; TREE; TROPIC CLIMATE;

CARBON DIOXIDE; NITROGEN; ORGAN SIZE; PERU; PHOSPHORUS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT TRANSPIRATION; RIBULOSE-BISPHOSPHATE CARBOXYLASE; TEMPERATURE; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

PERU;

EID: 84855607343     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-011-2068-z     Document Type: Article

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