Wood diameter indicates diurnal and long-term patterns of xylem water potential in Norway spruce

Trees - Structure and Function

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 215-221

  Offenthaler, Ivo ^a   Hietz, Peter ^a   Richter, Hanno ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

Author keywords

Dendrometry; Picea abies; Wood diameter; Xylem water potential

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; FORESTRY; SHRINKAGE; THERMAL EXPANSION; TRANSPIRATION; VAPOR PRESSURE;

WOOD DIAMETER; XYLEM WATER POTENTIAL;

WOOD;

PICEA; SHRINKAGE; THERMAL EXPANSION; TRANSPIRATION; TREES; VAPOR PRESSURE; WOOD; XYLEM;

EID: 0035020747     PISSN: 09311890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004680100090     Document Type: Article

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