Combined drought and episodic freezing effects on seedlings of low- and high-elevation subspecies of sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata)

Physiologia Plantarum

Volumn 130, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 207-217

  Lambrecht, Susan C ^a   Shattuck, Anne K ^b   Loik, Michael E ^b  

^a SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPHYLL; FLUORESCENCE; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); SEED; SOILS; WATER;

EPISODIC FREEZING;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

PRECIPITATION; SEEDLINGS; SOIL; WATER;

ARTEMISIA; ARTEMISIA TRIDENTATA; TRIDENTATA;

EID: 34248226946     PISSN: 00319317     EISSN: 13993054     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3054.2007.00904.x     Document Type: Article

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