Roles of climate and functional traits in controlling toothed vs. untoothed leaf margins

American Journal of Botany

Volumn 99, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 915-922

  Royer, Dana L ^a   Peppe, Daniel J ^b   Wheeler, Elisabeth A ^c   Ülo, Niinemets ^d  

^a WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BAYLOR UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d ESTONIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Estonia)

Author keywords

Climate; Deciduous; Evergreen; Leaf mass per area; Leaf teeth; Leaf thickness; Temperature; Wood anatomy

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; CLIMATE EFFECT; CORRELATION; DATA SET; DATABASE; DECIDUOUS TREE; EVERGREEN TREE; FUNCTIONAL CHANGE; LEAF AREA INDEX; PALEOCLIMATE; WOOD;

ARTICLE; BIOMASS; CLIMATE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GEOGRAPHY; HISTOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT LEAF; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICAL MODEL; TEMPERATURE;

BIOMASS; CLIMATE; GEOGRAPHY; LOGISTIC MODELS; PLANT LEAVES; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; SAMPLE SIZE; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84860578006     PISSN: 00029122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3732/ajb.1100428     Document Type: Article

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