Universal hydraulics of the flowering plants: vessel diameter scales with stem length across angiosperm lineages, habits and climates.

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• Publication year

  2014

• Venue

  Ecology Letters

• Publication date

  2014-08-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1111/ele.12302PMID 24847972
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