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P. B. Reich, J. Oleksyn, M. G. Tjoelker, Needle Respiration and Nitrogen Concentration in Scots Pine Populations from a Broad Latitudinal Range: A Common Garden Test with Field-Grown Trees, Functional Ecology, Vol. 10, No. 6 (Dec., 1996), pp. 768-776
Reich et al. (Sun,) studied this question.