Inclusion of vein traits improves predictive power for the leaf economic spectrum: A response to Sack et al. (2013)

Journal of Experimental Botany

Volumn 65, Issue 18, 2014, Pages 5109-5114

  Blonder, Benjamin ^a   Violle, Cyrille ^b   Bentley, Lisa Patrick ^c   Enquist, Brian J ^a,d  

^a The University of Arizona   (United States)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Leaf economics spectrum; Vein density; Venation network

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; VASCULAR BUNDLE (PLANT);

PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT TRANSPIRATION; PLANT VASCULAR BUNDLE; PLANTS;

EID: 84906793824     PISSN: 00220957     EISSN: 14602431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jxb/eru143     Document Type: Review

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