Sensitivity of leaf physiognomy to climate: Applications to habitat-scaled and species-based climate proxy

Journal of Biological Research (Greece)

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 312-325

  Xu, Fei ^a,b   Wang, Renqing ^b   Guo, Weihua ^b  

^a SHANDONG NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Climate proxies; Contour extraction method; Leaf physiognomy; Multiple linear regression; Water and light availability

Indexed keywords

QUERCUS ACUTISSIMA;

EID: 84911945391     PISSN: 1790045X     EISSN: 22415793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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