Effects of tussock size and soil water content on whole plant gas exchange in Stipa tenacissima L.: Extrapolating from the leaf versus modelling crown architecture

Environmental and Experimental Botany

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 376-388

  Ramírez, David A ^a   Valladares, Fernando ^b,c   Blasco, Adela ^a   Bellot, Juan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO DE RECURSOS NATURALES   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSIDAD REY JUAN CARLOS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Architectural model; Scaling up; Stipa tenacissima; Water stress; Whole plant photosynthesis; Whole plant transpiration

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ESTIMATION METHOD; GAS EXCHANGE; GRASS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; SENESCENCE; SIZE EFFECT; SOIL WATER; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TUSSOCK GRASSLAND; WATER CONTENT; WATER USE;

POACEAE; STIPA TENACISSIMA;

EID: 39649117988     PISSN: 00988472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envexpbot.2007.10.012     Document Type: Article

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