Shade tolerance, photoinhibition sensitivity and phenotypic plasticity of Ilex aquifolium in continental Mediterranean sites

Tree Physiology

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1041-1052

  Valladares, Fernando ^a   Arrieta, Sagrario ^b   Aranda, Ismael ^c   Lorenzo, David ^c   Sánchez Gómez, David ^a   Tena, David ^a   Suárez, Francisco ^b   Pardos, José Alberto ^d  

^a INSTITUTO DE CIENCIAS AGRARIAS   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c INIA   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Acclimation; High light stress; Holly; Photosynthesis; Relative growth rate; Seedlings; Sun and shade; Survival; Water relations

Indexed keywords

GROWTH RATE; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PHOTOINHIBITION; PLANT WATER RELATIONS; SHADE TOLERANCE; SURVIVAL;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN; WORLD;

ILEX; ILEX AQUIFOLIUM;

EID: 24344467771     PISSN: 0829318X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/treephys/25.8.1041     Document Type: Article

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