Water relations of black spruce trees on a peatland during wet and dry years

Wetlands

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 225-233

  Pepin, Steeve ^a,d   Plamondon, André P ^b   Britel, Abderraouf ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^c Service des Eaux et Forêts   (Morocco)

^d Min des Ressources Naturelles du Q   (Canada)

Author keywords

Forested bog; Osmotic adjustment; Picea mariana; Shoot water relation parameters; Stomatal conductance

Indexed keywords

DROUGHT STRESS; PEATLAND; PLANT WATER RELATIONS; STOMATAL CONDUCTANCE;

PICEA MARIANA;

EID: 0041385631     PISSN: 02775212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1672/0277-5212(2002)022[0225:WROBST]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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