Development of a hydrothermal time seed germination model which uses the Weibull distribution to describe base water potential

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 221, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1267-1272

  Watt, Michael S ^a   Xu, Vega ^b   Bloomberg, Mark ^b  

^a SCION   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Base water potential; Buddleia davidii; Butterfly bush; Hydrothermal time; Radiata pine; Weibull distribution

Indexed keywords

BASE TEMPERATURE; BUTTERFLY BUSH; DORMANT SEEDS; GERMINATING SEEDS; HYDROTHERMAL TIME; PINUS RADIATA; RADIATA PINE; RIGHT-SKEWED DISTRIBUTIONS; SEED GERMINATION; TIME COURSE; WATER POTENTIAL;

FORESTRY; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; SEED;

WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

CONIFEROUS TREE; FORECASTING METHOD; GERMINATION; HYDROTHERMAL SYSTEM; NUMERICAL MODEL; PLANT WATER RELATIONS; SHRUB; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; WEIBULL THEORY;

BUDDLEJA; BUDDLEJA DAVIDII; BUDDLEJA SESSILIFLORA; PINUS RADIATA; RADIATA;

EID: 77949914207     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2010.01.017     Document Type: Article

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