The fate and age of carbon - insights into the storage and remobilization dynamics in trees

New Phytologist

Volumn 209, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 1338-1340

  Gessler, Arthur ^a   Treydte, Kerstin ^a  

^a SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

13C and 14C; Bomb radiocarbon approach; Carbon storage and remobilization; Drought; Metabolic activity; Nonstructural carbon pool; Old grown trees

Indexed keywords

CARBON; NITROGEN;

HUMAN; PLANT STEM; TREE;

CARBON; HUMANS; NITROGEN; PLANT STEMS; TREES;

EID: 84969399005     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/nph.13863     Document Type: Note

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