Carbon allocation and productivity in tropical mountain forests

Tropical Mountain Forest: Patterns and Processes in a Biodiversity Hotspot

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 109-128

  Leuschner, Christoph ^a   Moser, Gerald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

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