Scaling of xylem and phloem transport capacity and resource usage with tree size

Frontiers in Plant Science

Volumn 4, Issue DEC, 2013, Pages

  Hölttä, Teemu ^a   Kurppa, Miika ^a   Nikinmaa, Eero ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Carbon allocation; Metabolic scaling; Nitrogen allocation; Phloem transport; Pipe model; Xylem transport

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901012380     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664462X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2013.00496     Document Type: Article

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