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Oecologia. 1998 May;114(4):471-482. doi: 10.1007/s004420050471.

Relationships of leaf dark respiration to leaf nitrogen, specific leaf area and leaf life-span: a test across biomes and functional groups.

Oecologia

Peter B Reich, Michael B Walters, David S Ellsworth, James M Vose, John C Volin, Charles Gresham, William D Bowman

Affiliations

  1. Department of Forest Resources, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN 55108, USA Fax 612-625-5212; e-mail: [email protected], , , , , , US.
  2. Faculty of Natural Resources and Environmental Studies, University of Northern British Columbia, Prince George, BC, Canada V2N 4Z9, , , , , , CA.
  3. Department of Applied Science, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973, USA, , , , , , US.
  4. U.S. Forest Service, Coweeta Hydrological Lab., Otto, NC 28763, USA, , , , , , US.
  5. Division of Science, Florida Atlantic University, Davie, FL 33314, USA, , , , , , US.
  6. Baruch Forest Institute, Clemson University, Georgetown, SC 29442, USA, , , , , , US.
  7. Mountain Research Station, Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, and Department of EPO Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, USA, , , , , , US.

PMID: 28307896 DOI: 10.1007/s004420050471

Abstract

Based on prior evidence of coordinated multiple leaf trait scaling, we hypothesized that variation among species in leaf dark respiration rate (R

Keywords: Functional groups; Key words Respiration; Leaf life-span; Nitrogen; Specific leaf area

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