Freezing tolerance in grasses along an altitudinal gradient in the Venezuelan Andes

Oecologia

Volumn 150, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 393-397

  Márquez, Edjuly J ^a,b   Rada, Fermín ^a   Fariñas, Mario R ^a  

^a FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS   (Venezuela)

^b Universidad Nacional Experimental Francisco de Miranda   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

Injury temperature; Poaceae; Supercooling capacity; Tropical high Andes

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; FREEZE TOLERANCE; GRASS; SUPERCOOLING; SURVIVAL;

ADAPTATION; ALTITUDE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FREEZING; PHYSIOLOGY; POACEAE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; VENEZUELA;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ALTITUDE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FREEZING; POACEAE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VENEZUELA;

ANDES; SOUTH AMERICA;

POACEAE;

EID: 33751014834     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-006-0556-3     Document Type: Article

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