Estimating water use by sugar maple trees: Considerations when using heat-pulse methods in trees with deep functional sapwood

Tree Physiology

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 217-227

  Pausch, Roman C ^a   Grote, Edmund E ^b   Dawson, Todd E ^b,c  

^a United States Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service and Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Acer saccharum; Plant water relations; Sap flow; Sap flux; Sap velocity; Water content; Wood water content

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION METHOD; TREE; WATER USE;

ACER; ACER SACCHARUM; HUMAN PAPILLOMAVIRUS TYPES; SACCHARUM; SACCHARUM HYBRID CULTIVAR;

EID: 0034163876     PISSN: 0829318X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/treephys/20.4.217     Document Type: Article

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