A framework for understanding the relationship between environment and vegetation based on the surface area to volume ratio of leaves.
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Roderick, Michael; Berry, Sandra Lee; Noble, I R
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1. Existing data show that the surface area to volume ratio (Λ) of leaves generally decreases along both aridity and altitudinal gradients. That results in the relations: Λ decreases as it gets drier and hotter, as well as wetter and colder. Thus variat
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Date published: | 2000 |
Type: | Journal article |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1885/90114 |
Source: | Functional Ecology |
DOI: | 10.1046/j.1365-2435.2000.00438.x |
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