Adaptation to climate change of dioecious plants: Does gender balance matter?

Tree Physiology

Volumn 32, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1321-1324

  Tognetti, Roberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MOLISE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; NITROGEN;

METABOLISM; NOTE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULUS; TEMPERATURE;

CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; NITROGEN; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; POPULUS; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84869169344     PISSN: 0829318X     EISSN: 17584469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/treephys/tps105     Document Type: Note

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