Fibre wall and lumen fractions drive wood density variation across 24 Australian angiosperms

AoB PLANTS

Volumn 5, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Ziemińska, Kasia ^a   Butler, Don W ^a,b   Gleason, Sean M ^a   Wright, Ian J ^a   Westoby, Mark ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b QUEENSLAND HERBARIUM   (Australia)

Author keywords

Ecological strategies; Fibres; Parenchyma; Rays; Tissue fraction proportion percentage volume; Vessels; Wood anatomy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893607908     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20412851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aobpla/plt046     Document Type: Article

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