Hydraulic redistribution in three Amazonian trees

Oecologia

Volumn 145, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 354-363

  Oliveira, Rafael S ^a   Dawson, Todd E ^a   Burgess, Stephen S O ^a,b   Nepstad, Daniel C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c WOODS HOLE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Amazon; Deep roots; Drought; Hydraulic redistribution; Root sap flow

Indexed keywords

WATER;

DROUGHT; HYDRAULICS; RAINFOREST; SAP FLOW; TREE;

ARTICLE; BRAZIL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISASTER; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; PHYSIOLOGY; SEASON; SEDIMENT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SWEATING; TREE;

BRAZIL; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; NATURAL DISASTERS; PLANT TRANSPIRATION; SEASONS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TREES; WATER;

AMAZONIA; SOUTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

COUSSAREA; MANILKARA HUBERI; MANILKARA ZAPOTA; PROTIUM;

EID: 26044444064     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-005-0108-2     Document Type: Article

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