The root to shoot ratio of trees from open- and closed-canopy cerrado in south-eastern Brazil

Plant Ecology and Diversity

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 333-343

  Durigan, Giselda ^a   Melo, Antonio C G ^a   Brewer, John S ^b  

^a Assis State Forest   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

Author keywords

biomass distribution; cerrad o; cerrado sensu stricto; functional traits; savanna

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871353098     PISSN: 17550874     EISSN: 17551668     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17550874.2012.691564     Document Type: Article

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