Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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10939241 | Flora - Morphology, Distribution, Functional Ecology of Plants | 2011 | 8 Pages |
Abstract
Our results suggest that plants in dwarf tropical cloud forests have decreased SLA and height, correlated with less favorable soil and atmospheric conditions, with a higher plasticity of these traits, as compared with the tropical montane evergreen forest. Community-level differences in SLA and plant height thus can be taken as indicators characterizing plant distribution to different types of tropical cloud forests.
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Authors
Wenxing Long, Runguo Zang, Yi Ding,