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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
概括

植物生态系统在干旱期间表现出类似的最大雨水利用效率 (RUE),无论生物群类型如何. 这一发现对于预测生态系统对改变降水模式的反应至关重要.

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