Is there evidence of adaptation to tidal flooding in saplings of baldcypress subjected to different salinity regimes?

Environmental and Experimental Botany

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 118-126

  Krauss, Ken W ^a   Doyle, Thomas W ^a   Howard, Rebecca J ^a  

^a NATIONAL WETLANDS RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Ecotypic variation; Forested wetlands; Growth; Leaf gas exchange; Taxodium distichum; Tide

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; BIOMASS; CONIFEROUS TREE; ECOMORPHOLOGY; ECOPHYSIOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; FLOODING; GROWING SEASON; HYDROPERIOD; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; SALINITY; SAPLING; STOMATAL CONDUCTANCE; WETLAND;

TAXODIUM; TAXODIUM DISTICHUM;

EID: 69349099589     PISSN: 00988472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envexpbot.2009.05.005     Document Type: Article

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