Investigating if a wider range of growth rates and shade tolerances are found on nutrient-rich soils, because such soils not only support fast-growing species with high metabolic rates, but also species capable of tolerating the very deep shade cast by forest canopies growing where nutrients are plentiful.
Coomes, D.A.; Kunstler, G.; Canham, C.D.; Wright, E.
2009
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