Hydraulic acclimation to shading in boreal conifers of varying shade tolerance

Plant, Cell and Environment

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 382-393

  Schoonmaker, Amanda L ^a   Hacke, Uwe G ^a   LandhäUsser, Simon M ^a   Lieffers, Victor J ^a   Tyree, Melvin T ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b US Forest Service   (United States)

Author keywords

Cavitation; Conductivity; Pine; Spruce; Water relations; Wood anatomy

Indexed keywords

WATER;

ANATOMY; BOREAL FOREST; CONIFEROUS TREE; LEAF AREA; OVERSTORY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SHADE TOLERANCE; STOMATAL CONDUCTANCE; UNDERSTORY; VULNERABILITY; WATER RELATIONS;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ARTICLE; CANADA; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LIGHT; PHYSIOLOGY; PINE; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SPRUCE; TREE; ULTRASTRUCTURE; WOOD; XYLEM;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ALBERTA; LIGHT; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; PICEA; PINUS; TREES; WATER; WOOD; XYLEM;

CONIFEROPHYTA; PICEA; PICEA GLAUCA; PICEA MARIANA; PINUS BANKSIANA; PINUS CONTORTA;

EID: 77949361925     PISSN: 01407791     EISSN: 13653040     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3040.2009.02088.x     Document Type: Article

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