Hi Christine,

check out:

Anderson, J.E., J. Williams, P.E. Kriedemann, M.P. Austin, and G.D. Farquhar,
Correlations between carbon isotope discrimination and climate of native habitats
for diverse eucalypt taxa growing in a common garden, Aust. J. Plant Physiol., 23,
311-320, 1996.

Harrington, R.A., J.H. Fownes, F.C. Meinzer, and P.G. Scowcroft, Forest growth
along a rainfall gradient in Hawaii: Acacia koa stand structure, productivity,
foliar nutrients, and  water- and nutrient-use efficiencies, Oecologia (Berlin),
102, 277-284, 1995.

Schulze, E.D., R. Ellis, W. Schulze, P. Trimborn, and H. Ziegler, Diversity,
metabolic types and d13C carbon isotope ratios in the grass flora of Namibia in
relation to growth form, precipitation and habitat conditions, Oecologia (Berlin),
106, 352-369, 1996.

Schulze, E.D., R.J. Williams, G.D. Farquhar, W. Schulze, J. Langridge, J.M.
Miller, and B.H. Walker, Carbon and nitrogen isotope discrimination and nitrogen
nutrition of trees along a rainfall gradient in northern Australia, Aust. J. Plant
Physiol., 25, 413-425, 1998.

Stewart, G.R., M.H. Turnbull, S. Schmidt, and P.D. Erskine, 13C natural abundance
in plant communities along a rainfall gradient: a biological integrator of water
availability, Aust. J. Plant Physiol., 22, 51-55, 1995.

Nina
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