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Knowledge of the phenology of woody plants is essential in order to understand their above- and belowground function, resource allocation and performance under natural conditions. Vegetation in areas with mediterranean-type climates is usually rich in species and plant life forms (see Trabaud in this volume) and although a considerable amount of work has been devoted to the study of phenology of mediterranean-type plant communities (see the contributions in this volume by Montenegro; Arianoutsou and Mardiris, and Moll), more information is needed in special cases to fully characterize plant function within these ecosystems. The objective of the present work was to examine the phenology of reproduction and aboveground growth of several characteristic scrub species growing under a mediterranean-type of climate in Portugal as part of a larger scope study of gas exchange and water relations (see the chapters by Beyschlag et al., Correia et al., Harley et al., Lange et al., Meister et al., and Tenhunen et al.).
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Pereira, J.S., Beyschlag, G., Lange, O.L., Beyschlag, W., Tenhunen, J.D. (1987). Comparative phenology of four mediterranean shrub species growing in Portugal. 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_33
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