Travis E Huxman1, Melinda D Smith, Philip A Fay

  • 1Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA. huxman@email.arizona.edu

Nature
|June 11, 2004
PubMed
まとめ

植物の生態系は,バイオームの種類に関係なく,干ばつ中に同様の最大雨利用効率 (RUE) を示しています. この発見は,降雨パターンの変化に対する生態系の反応を予測する上で極めて重要です.

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