Talk:Medicago minima

Leaf life span (LLS)

If this helps: I was looking at this paper and saw that the leaf life span for the Medicago minima, Leguminosae is 70 ± 2.7 (days). States: "This study was conducted in Mediterranean old-fields over a 4-yr period on 42 species differing in successional status."

"Leaf life span, dynamics and construction cost of species from Mediterranean old-fields differing in successional status"
Marie-Laure Navas, Béatrice Ducout, Catherine Roumet, Jean Richarte, Joël Garnier, Eric Garnier.
New Phytologist,
Volume 159, Issue 1, pages 213–228, July 2003.
Article first published online: 12 JUN 2003
DOI: 10.1046/j.1469-8137.2003.00790.x
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1046/j.1469-8137.2003.00790.x/full

Thank you, Wordreader (talk) 17:27, 30 August 2013 (UTC)