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Carbohydrate storage enhances seedling shade and stress tolerance in a neotropical forest

2007-03-01

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1 To survive in forest understoreys, seedlings must depend on carbohydrate reserves when they experience negative carbon balance imposed by occasional light reduction and tissue loss to herbivores and diseases. We present the first experimental evidence in support of this hypothesis, using seven woody neotropical species. 2 We transplanted seedlings that had recently expanded their first photosynthetic cotyledon o...

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Literature Corpus work: b6ed556e-937a-5c0f-b6f5-d622cca62543
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2745.2006.01207.x

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