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Living on borrowed time – Amazonian trees use decade‐old storage carbon to survive for months after complete stem girdling

Nonstructural carbon (NSC) reserves act as buffers to sustain tree activity during periods when carbon (C) assimilation does not meet C demand, but little is known about their age and accessibility; we designed a controlled girdling experiment in the Amazon to study tree survival on NSC reserves. We...

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Autores principales: Muhr, Jan, Trumbore, Susan, Higuchi, Niro, Kunert, Norbert
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6175381/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30067298
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/nph.15302