Ecophysiological adaptations of water relations of Teucrium chamaedrys L. to the hot and dry climate of xeric limestone sites in Franconia (Southern Germany)

Flora: Morphology, Distribution, Functional Ecology of Plants

Volumn 203, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 3-13

  Burghardt, Markus ^a,b   Burghardt, Adelheid ^a,b   Gall, Josef ^b   Rosenberger, Caroline ^b   Riederer, Markus ^b  

^a Büro für Naturschutz und Landschaftsökologie   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cuticular permeance; Drought resistance; Dry grassland; Leaf temperature; Nanism; Pressure volume analysis

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; DROUGHT RESISTANCE; ECOPHYSIOLOGY; GRASSLAND; LEGUME; LIMESTONE; ORNAMENTAL SPECIES; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; WATER RELATIONS; WATER UPTAKE;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCONIA; GERMANY;

TEUCRIUM; TEUCRIUM CHAMAEDRYS;

EID: 39149130303     PISSN: 03672530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.flora.2007.11.003     Document Type: Article

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