Broad anatomical variation within a narrow wood density range - A study of twig wood across 69 Australian angiosperms

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2015, Pages

  Ziemińska, Kasia ^a   Westoby, Mark ^a   Wright, Ian J ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ANGIOSPERM; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; AXIAL PARENCHYMA; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; LEAF AREA; LEAF AREA TO SAPWOOD AREA RATIO; MODULUS OF ELASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PITH AREA; PLANT FIBER; PLANT HEIGHT; PLANT PARAMETERS; PLANT PARENCHYMA; PLANT STRUCTURES; PLANT VESSEL; RAY PARENCHYMA; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; VESSEL PROPERTY; WOOD; WOOD DENSITY; WOOD TISSUE FRACTION; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; CLASSIFICATION; ECOLOGY; EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; PLANT LEAF;

MAGNOLIOPHYTA;

ANGIOSPERMS; AUSTRALIA; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; ECOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PLANT LEAVES; WOOD;

EID: 84928553953     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0124892     Document Type: Article

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