Age, allocation and availability of nonstructural carbon in mature red maple trees

New Phytologist

Volumn 200, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1145-1155

  Carbone, Mariah S ^a,e   Czimczik, Claudia I ^b   Keenan, Trevor F ^a   Murakami, Paula F ^c   Pederson, Neil ^d   Schaberg, Paul G ^c   Xu, Xiaomei ^b   Richardson, Andrew D ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^d Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

Author keywords

13 C; Acer rubrum (red maple); Carbohydrates; Radiocarbon (14C); Ring growth; Sprouts; Stem respiration; Storage; Stump

Indexed keywords

AGE; CARBON ISOTOPE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CELLULOSE; DICOTYLEDON; GROWTH RATE; METABOLISM; MORTALITY; STEM; SUBSTRATE; TREE RING;

ACER; ACER RUBRUM;

CARBOHYDRATE; CARBON; CARBON 13; CARBON DIOXIDE; CELLULOSE;

ACER; ACER RUBRUM (RED MAPLE); ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMASS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; METABOLISM; PLANT STEM; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RADIOCARBON (14C); RING GROWTH; SPROUTS; STEM RESPIRATION; STORAGE; STUMP; TIME; TREE;

13 C; ACER RUBRUM (RED MAPLE); CARBOHYDRATES; RADIOCARBON (14C); RING GROWTH; SPROUTS; STEM RESPIRATION; STORAGE; STUMP;

ACER; BIOMASS; CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON ISOTOPES; CELLULOSE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLANT STEMS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; TREES;

EID: 84887110769     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/nph.12448     Document Type: Article

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