Physical limits to leaf size in tall trees

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 110, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Jensen, Kaare H ^a   Zwieniecki, MacIej A ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTRINSIC PROPERTY; LOWER BOUNDARY; MINIMUM ENERGY; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; PHYSICAL CONSTRAINTS; PHYSICAL LIMITS; SIZE RANGES; TRANSPORT EFFICIENCY; TRANSPORT NETWORKS; TREE HEIGHT; UPPER BOUNDARY; VASCULAR SYSTEM;

CARBOHYDRATES; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM;

FORESTRY;

CARBOHYDRATES; FORESTRY; LEAVES;

ANGIOSPERM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; HISTOLOGY; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT LEAF; TREE;

ANGIOSPERMS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT LEAVES; TREES;

EID: 84872019995     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.018104     Document Type: Article

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