Plasticity in Root/Shoot Partitioning: Optimal, Ontogenetic, or Both?

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• Publication year

  1996

• Venue

  Functional Ecology

• Publication date

  1996-02-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.2307/2390260
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