Leaf wax n-alkane distributions in and across modern plants: Implications for paleoecology and chemotaxonomy

2013/04/29 by Rosemary T. Bush, Francesca A. McInerney · 836 citations
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Environmental Science · #Alkane #Biology #Canopy #Ecology #Geology and Paleoclimatology Research #Paleoecology #Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics #Range (aeronautics) #Tree-ring climate responses

paper · doi:10.1016/j.gca.2013.04.016

published in Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 117, 161-179 (Elsevier BV)

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