Impacts of cloud immersion on microclimate, photosynthesis and water relations of Abies fraseri (Pursh.) Poiret in a temperate mountain cloud forest

Oecologia

Volumn 158, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 229-238

  Reinhardt, Keith ^a   Smith, William K ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Clouds; Ecophysiology; Fraser fir; Leaf wetness; Southern Appalachian mountains

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; WATER;

CLIMATE EFFECT; CLOUD; CLOUD FOREST; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONIFEROUS TREE; GROWING SEASON; IRRADIANCE; MICROCLIMATE; MONTANE FOREST; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT WATER RELATIONS; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT;

ABIES; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; METABOLISM; MICROCLIMATE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT LEAF; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEASON; SUNLIGHT; TREE; UNITED STATES;

ABIES; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; APPALACHIAN REGION; CARBON DIOXIDE; MICROCLIMATE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT TRANSPIRATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEASONS; SUNLIGHT; TREES; WATER;

APPALACHIANS; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

ABIES; ABIES FRASERI; CONIFEROPHYTA; PICEA; PICEA RUBENS;

EID: 54349091744     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-008-1128-5     Document Type: Article

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