Radial changes in wood specific gravity of tropical trees: inter‐ and intraspecific variation during secondary succession
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Radial variation in wood specific gravity of tropical tree species differing in growth-mortality strategies.
UNLABELLED • PREMISE OF THE STUDY Wood specific gravity (WSG) mediates an interspecific trade-off between growth and mortality and is a key measure for estimating carbon stocks. Most studies use species mean values to represent WSG, despite variation at different levels of biological organization. We examined sources of variation in WSG across four nested scales (segments within cores, cores ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Functional Ecology
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0269-8463,1365-2435
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2435.12305