Diurnal patterns of gas-exchange and metabolic pools in tundra plants during three phases of the arctic growing season

Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 375-388

  Patankar, Rajit ^a   Mortazavi, Behzad ^a,b   Oberbauer, Steven F ^c   Starr, Gregory ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

^b DAUPHIN ISLAND SEA LAB   (United States)

^c FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alaska; Circadian clock; Photoperiod; Photosynthesis; Respiration; Sugars; Total nonstructural carbohydrates; Tussock tundra

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886252378     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20457758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.467     Document Type: Article

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