Spatial trends in leaf size of Amazonian rainforest trees
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Spatial trends in leaf size of Amazonian rainforest trees
Leaf size influences many aspects of tree function such as rates of transpiration and photosynthesis and, consequently, often varies in a predictable way in response to environmental gradients. The recent development of panAmazonian databases based on permanent botanical plots has now made it possible to assess trends in leaf size across environmental gradients in Amazonia. Previous plot-based ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Biogeosciences
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1726-4189
DOI: 10.5194/bg-6-1563-2009