Plant functional types : are we getting any closer to the Holy Grail ?
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1 Laboratoire d’Ecologie Alpine, CNRS UMR 5553, Université Joseph Fourier, BP 53X, 38041 Grenoble Cedex 9, France. [email protected] 2 Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Vegetal (CONICET – UNC) and FCECFyN, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina 3 Department of System Ecology, Institute of Ecological Science, Vrije Universiteit, De Boelelaan 1085, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands 4 Centre d’Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive, CNRS UMR 5175, 1919 route de Mende, 34293 Montpellier Cedex 5, France 5 School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol, University Road, Bristol BS8 1SS, UK 6 CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems, GPO Box 284, Canberra ACT 2601, Australia 7 Centro de Estudios Ambientales del Mediterraneo (CEAM), C/ Charles R. Darwin 14, Parc Tecnologic, 46980 Paterna, Valencia, Spain
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تاریخ انتشار 2005