Vulnerability curves from conifer sapwood sections exposed over solutions with known water potentials

Journal of Experimental Botany

Volumn 54, Issue 390, 2003, Pages 2149-2155

  Kikuta, Silvia B ^a   Hietz, Peter ^a   Richter, Hanno ^a  

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

Author keywords

Cavitation; Cohesion tension theory; Juniperus virginiana L.; Sapwood sections; Ultrasound acoustic emissions; Vulnerability curves; Water potentials

Indexed keywords

CAVITATION; HYGROMETERS; THERMOCOUPLES; WOOD;

SAPWOOD;

FORESTRY;

WATER;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; JUNIPERUS; PHYSIOLOGY; POTENTIOMETRY; TIME;

ACOUSTICS; JUNIPERUS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POTENTIOMETRY; TIME FACTORS; WATER;

CONIFEROPHYTA; JUNIPERUS; JUNIPERUS VIRGINIANA;

EID: 0041875038     PISSN: 00220957     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erg216     Document Type: Article

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