Productive leaf functional traits of Chinese savanna species

Plant Ecology

Volumn 213, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1449-1460

  Zhang, Jiao Lin ^a   Poorter, L ^b   Cao, Kun Fang ^a  

^a KEY LABORATORY OF TROPICAL FOREST ECOLOGY   (China)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Leaf functional traits; Productivity; Resource use efficiency; Savanna

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; ARID REGION; DATA SET; DROUGHT RESISTANCE; LEAF AREA; LOCAL ADAPTATION; MORPHOLOGY; NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; RESOURCE USE; SAVANNA; STOMATAL CONDUCTANCE; VALLEY; WATER USE EFFICIENCY;

CHINA;

SPERMATOPHYTA;

EID: 84865570626     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11258-012-0103-8     Document Type: Article

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