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I Colin Prentice1, Ning Dong, Sean M Gleason

  • 1Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, North Ryde, NSW, 2109, Australia; AXA Chair of Biosphere and Climate Impacts, Department of Life Sciences and Grantham Institute for Climate Change, Imperial College, Silwood Park, Ascot, SL5 7PY, UK.

Ecology Letters
|November 13, 2013
PubMed

Keywords:
Ariditynitrogenoptimalityphotosynthesisplant functional traitsstable isotopesstomatal conductancetemperaturetranspirationviscosity

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