The Relationship of Evergreenness, Crown Architecture, and Leaf Size

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• Publication year

  1989

• Venue

  American Naturalist

• Publication date

  1989-04-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1086/284930
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar

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