The relationship of leaf photosynthetic traits - Vcmax and Jmax - to leaf nitrogen, leaf phosphorus, and specific leaf area: A meta-analysis and modeling study

Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 4, Issue 16, 2014, Pages 3218-3235

  Walker, Anthony P ^a,b   Beckerman, Andrew P ^a   Gu, Lianhong ^b   Kattge, Jens ^c   Cernusak, Lucas A ^d   Domingues, Tomas F ^e   Scales, Joanna C ^f   Wohlfahrt, Georg ^g   Wullschleger, Stan D ^b   Woodward, F Ian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOGEOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^d JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^f ROTHAMSTED RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

Carbon assimilation; Carbon cycle; Carboxylation; DGVM; Electron transport; Farquhar model; Land surface model; Meta analysis; Mixed effect multiple regression; Noncarbon photosynthesis; TBM

Indexed keywords

EID: 84906497043     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20457758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.1173     Document Type: Article

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