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Carbon Isotope Composition in Relation to Leaf Gas Exchange and Environmental Conditions in Hawaiian Metrosideros polymorpha Populations Author(s): F. C. Meinzer, P. W. Rundel, G. Goldstein and M. R. Sharifi Source: Oecologia, Vol. 91, No. 3 (1992), pp. 305-311 Published by: Springer in cooperation with International Association for Ecology Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4220073 . Accessed: 09/01/2014 13:58 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp
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Oecologia (1992) 91:305-311 Oecolog?a ? Springer-Verlag 1992
Original
papers
Carbon and in
isotope
composition
environmental Hawaiian
F.C. Meinzer*,
relation
to
leaf
gas
exchange
conditions Metrosideros
P.W.
in
Rundel,
G. Goldstein**,
populations
polymorpha and M.R.
Sharifi
Laboratory of Biomedicai and Environmental Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, CA90024, USA Received December 20, 1991 / Accepted in revised form April 8, 1992
Summary. Carbon isotope composition, photosynthetic and nitrogen in content were measured gas exchange, leaves of three varieties of Metrosideros polymorpha in sites presenting a variety of precipitation, growing and edaphic regimes. The eight populations temperature studied could be divided into two groups on the basis of their mean foliar
