@article{
author = "Ivetić, Vladan and Stjepanović, St. and Devetaković, Jovana and Stanković, Dragica and Škorić, Mirko",
year = "2014",
abstract = "Leaf traits were investigated as morphological attributes for quality estimation of one-year-old bareroot seedlings of Fraxinus angustifolia Vahl. Leaf traits (number of simple - NSL and compound leaves - NCL, leaf average - ALA and total area - TLA and leaf area ratio - LAR) show similar relations to morphological attributes, the strongest to shoot growth (height - HT, root collar diameter - DIA and shoot dry weight - SDW). Increases of seedling morphological attributes are strongly related to increases of ALA. Given to strong positive correlations with other morphological attributes, ALA (R = 0.68-0.88) and TLA (R = 0.46-0.92) are suitable for seedlings quality testing. TLA explained a larger proportion of the variation of SDW (R-2 = 0.85) and ALA explained a large proportion of the variation of DIA (R-2 = 0.81). Leaf traits can be considered as valuable morphological attributes of seedling quality, in addition to strong correlation with other morphological attributes.",
publisher = "Editura Silvica",
journal = "Annals of Forest Research",
title = "Relationships between leaf traits and morphological attributes in one-year bareroot Fraxinus anguslifolia Vahl. seedlings",
pages = "203-197",
number = "2",
volume = "57",
doi = "10.15287/afr.2014.214",
url = "conv_2151"
}