Are high elevations in tropical mountains arid environments for plants?

Ecology

Volumn 81, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 1425-1436

  Leuschner, Christoph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KASSEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Air pressure; Aridity; Austrian Alps; Cloudiness; Hawaii; Leaf energy balance; Plant scleromorphy; Potential transpiration; Tropical mountains; Vertical rainfall distribution

Indexed keywords

ARIDITY; ECOMORPHOLOGY; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; MOUNTAIN ENVIRONMENT; PLANT COMMUNITY; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 0033922226     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(2000)081[1425:AHEITM]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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