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The costs in terms of respired photosynthate involved in growing and maintaining leaves is an important consideration for understanding the overall carbon balance of plants. Estimates of these costs have been made for a number of crop species (Penning de Vries 1975; Hunt and Loomis 1979). In the case of plants growing in natural ecosystems, only a few estimates have been made for chaparral and tundra species (Miller and Stoner 1979; Merino et al. 1982).
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Merino, J. (1987). The costs of growing and maintaining leaves of mediterranean plants. In: Tenhunen, J.D., Catarino, F.M., Lange, O.L., Oechel, W.C. (eds) Plant Response to Stress. NATO ASI Series, vol 15. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-70868-8_38
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