Gender, season and habitat: Patterns of variation in photosynthetic activity, growth and fecundity in Thymelaea velutina

Acta Oecologica

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 294-302

  de la Bandera, Maria del Carmen ^a   Traveset, Anna ^a   Valladares, Fernando ^b,c   Gulías, Javier ^d  

^a INSTITUTO MEDITERRÁNEO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO DE RECURSOS NATURALES   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSIDAD REY JUAN CARLOS   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITAT DE LES ILLES BALEARS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Abiotic stress; Balearic Islands; Chlorophyll fluorescence; Photochemical efficiency; Thymelaea velutina

Indexed keywords

ALTITUDINAL ZONATION; CHLOROPHYLL; DUNE; ECOPHYSIOLOGY; FECUNDITY; GROWTH RESPONSE; HABITAT QUALITY; MOUNTAIN; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEX-RELATED DIFFERENCE; SHRUB; STOMATAL CONDUCTANCE;

BALEARIC ISLANDS; EURASIA; EUROPE; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

THYMELAEA VELUTINA;

EID: 55249093854     PISSN: 1146609X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actao.2008.06.002     Document Type: Article

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