Water transport in trees: Current perspectives, new insights and some controversies

Environmental and Experimental Botany

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 239-262

  Meinzer, Frederick C ^a   Clearwater, Michael J ^b   Goldstein, Guillermo ^c  

^a PACIFIC NORTHWEST RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^b THE NEW ZEALAND INSTITUTE FOR PLANT AND FOOD RESEARCH LIMITED   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Capacitance; Cohesion theory; Hydraulic architecture; Plant water relations; Soil water partitioning; Xylem cavitation

Indexed keywords

HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; HYDRODYNAMICS; PLANT LEAF; PLANT ROOT; PLANT; ROOT SYSTEM; SOIL WATER; STABLE ISOTOPE; STOMATAL CONDUCTANCE; WATER ABSORPTION; WATER AVAILABILITY; WATER USE; XYLEM;

SOIL WATER; TREE; WATER RELATIONS; WATER UPTAKE;

EID: 0035037695     PISSN: 00988472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0098-8472(01)00074-0     Document Type: Review

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