Functional megadiversity

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 16, 2014, Pages 5763-5764

  Silman, Miles R ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBOHYDRATE; CARBON DIOXIDE;

ANGIOSPERM; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; CANOPY; CARBON CYCLING; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; FOLIAGE; FUNCTIONAL MEGADIVERSITY; GYMNOSPERM; HERBIVORE; HUMAN; LIFE HISTORY; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYLOGENY; PLANT COMMUNITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOIL FERTILITY; SPECIES COEXISTENCE; SPECIES COMPOSITION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SYMBIONT; TREE GROWTH; TROPHIC LEVEL; TROPICAL RAIN FOREST;

BIODIVERSITY; PLANT LEAVES; TREES;

EID: 84899123423     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1402618111     Document Type: Note

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