Physiological ecology of photosynthesis of five sympatric species of Velloziaceae in the rupestrian fields of Serra do Cipó, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Flora: Morphology, Distribution, Functional Ecology of Plants

Volumn 202, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 637-646

  Lüttge, Ulrich ^a   Duarte, Heitor Monteiro ^b   Scarano, Fabio Rubio ^b   de Mattos, Eduardo Arcoverde ^b   Cavalin, Pedro Ortman ^b   Franco, Augusto César ^c   Fernandes, Geraldo Wilson ^d  

^a DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRASILIA   (Brazil)

^d FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Cerrado; Chlorophyll fluorescence; Electron transport rate; Photoinhibition; Savanna; Velloziaceae

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; CERRADO; CHLOROPHYLL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIURNAL VARIATION; ECOPHYSIOLOGY; FLUORESCENCE; HEIGHT; MEASUREMENT METHOD; MONOCOTYLEDON; PHOTOINHIBITION; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; SAVANNA; SYMPATRY;

BRAZIL; MINAS GERAIS; SERRA DO CIPO; SERRA DO ESPINHACO; SOUTH AMERICA;

BARBACENIA; LILIOPSIDA; VELLOZIA; VELLOZIACEAE;

EID: 35248814744     PISSN: 03672530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.flora.2006.12.004     Document Type: Article

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