In Tropical Lowland Rain Forests Monocots have Tougher Leaves than Dicots, and Include a New Kind of Tough Leaf

BACKGROUND AND AIMS: There has been little previous work on the toughness of the laminae of monocots in tropical lowland rain forest (TLRF) despite the potential importance of greater toughness in inhibiting herbivory by invertebrates. Of 15 monocot families with >100 species in TLRF, eight have...

Fuld beskrivelse

Na minha lista:
Bibliografiske detaljer
Main Authors: Dominy, Nathaniel J., Grubb, Peter J., Jackson, Robyn V., Lucas, Peter W., Metcalfe, Daniel J., Svenning, Jens-Christian, Turner, Ian M.
Format: Artigo
Sprog:Inglês
Udgivet: Oxford University Press 2008
Fag:
Original Articles
Online adgang:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2710255/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18387969
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcn046
Tags: Tilføj Tag
Ingen Tags, Vær først til at tagge denne postø!

Lignende værker