Temperature drives global patterns in forest biomass distribution in leaves, stems, and roots

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

Volumn 111, Issue 38, 2014, Pages 13721-13726

  Reich, Peter B ^a,b   Luo, Yunjian ^c   Bradford, John B ^d   Poorter, Hendrik ^e   Perry, Charles H ^f   Oleksyn, Jacek ^a,g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b WESTERN SYDNEY UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^d U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^e FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^f U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

^g INSTITUTE OF DENDROLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Allocation; Allometry; Biogeography; Biomass fraction; Root: shoot

Indexed keywords

CARBON;

BIOMASS; CLIMATE CHANGE; FACTUAL DATABASE; FOREST; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HEAT; METABOLISM; PLANT LEAF; PLANT ROOT; PLANT STEM;

BIOMASS; CARBON; CLIMATE CHANGE; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FORESTS; HOT TEMPERATURE; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT ROOTS; PLANT STEMS;

EID: 84907246655     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1216053111     Document Type: Article

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