Flood tolerance of four tropical tree species

Tree Physiology

Volumn 19, Issue 14, 1999, Pages 925-932

  Lopez, Omar R ^a,b   Kursar, Thomas A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

Author keywords

Calophyllum longifolium; Floodplains; Gustavia superba; Monodominance; Panama; Prioria copaifera; Root growth; Seasonality; Tropical forests; Virola surinamensis

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; FLOOD; GROWTH RESPONSE; MORPHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; TOLERANCE; TREE; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT;

CALOPHYLLUM; CALOPHYLLUM LONGIFOLIUM; COPAIFERA; GUSTAVIA; GUSTAVIA SUPERBA; PRIORIA; PRIORIA COPAIFERA; VIROLA; VIROLA SURINAMENSIS;

EID: 0032805767     PISSN: 0829318X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/treephys/19.14.925     Document Type: Article

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