A patchy growth via successive and simultaneous cambia: key to success of the most widespread mangrove species Avicennia marina?

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Published in Ann Bot on November 15, 2007

Authors

Nele Schmitz1, Elisabeth M R Robert, Anouk Verheyden, James Gitundu Kairo, Hans Beeckman, Nico Koedam

Author Affiliations

1: Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Laboratory for General Botany and Nature Management, (APNA), Pleinlaan 2, 1050 Brussels, Belgium. nschmitz@vub.ac.be

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