The architecture of plant crowns: From design rules to light capture and performance

Functional Plant Ecology, Second Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 101-149

  Valladares, Fernando ^a   Niinemets, Ulo ^b  

^a CSIC   (Spain)

^b ESTONIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Estonia)

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