Critical limits of soil water availability (CL-SWA) for forest trees - an approach based on plant water status

Landbauforschung Volkenrode

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 87-93

  Czajkowski, Tomasz ^a   Ahrends, Bernd ^b   Bolte, Andreas ^a  

^a Institut für Waldokölogie und Waldinventuren   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Climate change; Critical limit; Drought; Effective rooting depth; Pre dawn potential; Soil water potential; Xylem conductivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 68949108472     PISSN: 04586859     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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