Using branch and basal trunk sap flow measurements to estimate whole-plant water capacitance: Comment on Burgess and Dawson (2008)

Plant and Soil

Volumn 315, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 315-324

  Phillips, Nathan G ^a,b   Scholz, Fabian G ^c   Bucci, Sandra J ^c   Goldstein, Guillermo ^d,e   Meinzer, Frederick C ^f  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE LA PATAGONIA SAN JUAN BOSCO   (Argentina)

^d Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

^e Department of Biology   (United States)

^f PACIFIC NORTHWEST RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Branch sap flow; Capacitance; Cohesion tension theory; Flow lags; Heat balance gauge; Heat pulse; Heat storage; Stem water storage; Thermal dissipation probe; Water transport

Indexed keywords

ARTIFACT; COHESION; DISSIPATION; HEAT BALANCE; SAMPLING; SAP FLOW; TENSION; WATER STORAGE;

EID: 58149388071     PISSN: 0032079X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11104-008-9741-y     Document Type: Conference Paper

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