Nitrogen and carbon storage in alpine plants
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Nitrogen and carbon storage in alpine plants.
Alpine plants offer unique opportunities to study the processes and economics of nutrient storage. The short alpine growing season forces rapid completion of plant growth cycles, which in turn causes competition between vegetative and reproductive growth sinks during the early part of the growing season. Mobilization of stored nitrogen and carbon reserves facilitates competing sinks and permits...
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عنوان ژورنال: Integrative and Comparative Biology
سال: 2006
ISSN: 1540-7063,1557-7023
DOI: 10.1093/icb/icj006