Exploiting water versus tolerating drought: water-use strategies of trees in a secondary successional tropical dry forest.

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• Publication year

  2015

• Venue

  Tree Physiology

• Publication date

  2015-12-18

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1093/treephys/tpv124PMID 26687176
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