Adaptations of Central Amazon tree species to prolonged flooding: Root morphology and leaf longevity

Plant Biology

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 515-522

  De Simone, O ^a   Muller E ^a   Junk, W J ^a   Schmidt, W ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adventitious roots; Aerenchyma; Central Amazon floodplain; Inundation forest; Oxygen distribution; Soil flooding; Suberin

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; FLOODING; LEAF; LONGEVITY; MORPHOLOGY; ROOT;

BRAZIL;

CRATEVA; HYPODERRIS; LAETIA; POUTERIA; SALIX; TABERNAEMONTANA; VITEX;

EID: 0036360845     PISSN: 14358603     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2002-34127     Document Type: Article

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