Partitioning of soil water among canopy trees in a seasonally dry tropical forest

Oecologia

Volumn 121, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 293-301

  Meinzer, Frederick C ^a   Andrade, José Luis ^a   Goldstein, Guillermo ^b   Holbrook, N Michele ^c   Cavelier, Jaime ^d   Wright, S Joseph ^e  

^a HAWAII AGRICULTURE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES   (Colombia)

^e SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

Author keywords

Leaf phenology; Panama; Roots; Sap flow; Stable hydrogen isotope ratio

Indexed keywords

DRY SEASON; NICHE PARTITIONING; SOIL WATER; TROPICAL FOREST; WATER USE;

PANAMA;

EID: 0032733639     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004420050931     Document Type: Article

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