Trade-off relationships between tree growth and defense: a comparison of Ocotea bullata and Curtisia dentata following bark harvesting in an evergreen moist South African Forest
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- 作者：Ntombizodwa Ngubeni ; Shayne Jacobs ; Armin Seydack ; Wessel Vermeulen ; George Sass…
- 关键词：CT scanning ; Wood decay ; Bark stripping ; Wood density ; Compartmentalization ; Growth ; defense trade ; off ; Growth differentiation balance hypothesis
- 刊名：Trees
- 出版年：2017
- 出版时间：February 2017
- 年：2017
- 卷：31
- 期：1
- 页码：339-348
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- 刊物类别：Biomedical and Life Sciences
- 刊物主题：Forestry; Plant Sciences; Agriculture; Plant Anatomy/Development; Plant Pathology; Plant Physiology;
- 出版者：Springer Berlin Heidelberg
- ISSN：1432-2285
- 卷排序：31
文摘
Key messageTwo artificially debarked Afrotemperate tree species showed different trade-offs between wound closure and compartmentalisation of decay in the stem. One species had a relaxed trade-off but inefficient defence, and the other showed more efficient defence but a substantial trade-off.