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Robert P Skelton1, Leander D L Anderegg1,2, Laurent J Lamarque3

  • 1Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA.

The New Phytologist
|May 25, 2019
PubMed
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Keywords:
comparative physiologyfunctional tradeoffshydraulic traitsplant functional typesresource acquisition traitstrait-environment and trait-trait relationshipswithin- and between-species variation

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