Are juvenile forms of New Zealand heteroblastic trees more resistant to water loss than their mature counterparts?

New Zealand Journal of Botany

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 313-325

  Darrow, Heather E ^a   Bannister, Peter ^a   Burritt, David J ^a   Jameson, Paula E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Carpodetus serratus; Climate; Desiccation; Divaricating shrubs; Drought; Heteroblasty; Hoheria angustifolia; Juvenile; Mature; Pittosporum eugenioides; Pseudopanax crassifolius; Sophora microphylla; Streblus heterophyllus; Water relations; Xeromorphy

Indexed keywords

CARBON 13;

ADAPTATION; CARBON ISOTOPE; DESICCATION; DROUGHT RESISTANCE; WATER RELATIONS;

DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DROUGHT TOLERANCE; NEW ZEALAND; PLANT EVOLUTION; PLANT WATER RELATION; PLANT WATER USE; SHADE TOLERANCE; SHOOT; SPECIES; VEGETATIVE GROWTH;

NEW ZEALAND;

CARPODETUS SERRATUS; COPROSMA ROTUNDIFOLIA; HOHERIA ANGUSTIFOLIA; PITTOSPORUM EUGENIOIDES; PLAGIANTHUS REGIUS; PSEUDOPANAX CRASSIFOLIUS; SOPHORA MICROPHYLLA; STREBLUS MICROPHYLLUS;

EID: 0036622641     PISSN: 0028825X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0028825X.2002.9512790     Document Type: Article

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