Light response in seedlings of a temperate (Quercus petraea) and a sub-Mediterranean species (Quercus pyrenaica): Contrasting ecological strategies as potential keys to regeneration performance in mixed marginal populations

Plant Ecology

Volumn 195, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 273-285

  Rodríguez Calcerrada, Jesús ^a,b   Pardos, Jose Alberto ^a,b   Gil, Luis ^a,b   Reich, Peter B ^c   Aranda, Ismael ^b,d  

^a Technical University of Madrid   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^d INIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Acclimation to light; Competitive ability; Ecological requirements; Marginal populations

Indexed keywords

ACCLIMATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DECIDUOUS TREE; GROWTH RATE; LEAF AREA; LIGHT EFFECT; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYTOMASS; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); REGENERATION; SEEDLING; STOMATAL CONDUCTANCE; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT;

QUERCUS; QUERCUS PETRAEA; QUERCUS PYRENAICA;

EID: 41049117998     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11258-007-9329-2     Document Type: Article

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