The significance of episodic rains for reproductive phenology and productivity of trees in semiarid regions of northwestern Venezuela

Trees - Structure and Function

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 336-348

  Díaz, Míriam ^a,b   Granadillo, Eréndira ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b Universidad Nacional Experimental Francisco de Miranda   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

Canopy irrigation; Foliar water uptake; Phenology; Productivity; Very dry forest; Water pulses

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATOLOGY; GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS; IRRIGATION; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); SOILS;

EPISODIC RAINS; ERYTHRINA VELUTINA; LEAF LONGEVITY; SEMIARID REGIONS; TRIGGERED FLOWERING;

RAIN;

BIODIVERSITY; ERYTHRINA; IRRIGATION; PHENOLOGY; PRECIPITANTS; RAIN; SOIL;

CAPPARIS; CAPPARIS ODORATISSIMA; ERYTHRINA VELUTINA; HELIASTER;

EID: 21244463605     PISSN: 09311890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00468-004-0405-0     Document Type: Article

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