Defining how aging Pseudotsuga and Abies compensate for multiple stresses through multi-criteria assessment of a functional-structural model

Tree Physiology

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 3-22

  Kennedy, Maureen C ^a   Ford, E David ^a   Hinckley, Thomas M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Age related decline; Carbon limitation; Hydraulic limitation; Pareto optimality; Reiteration

Indexed keywords

CARBOHYDRATE; CONIFEROUS FOREST; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; GROWTH MODELING; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; LONGEVITY; MORPHOGENESIS; MORPHOLOGY; OLD-GROWTH FOREST; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ABIES; ABIES GRANDIS; CONIFEROPHYTA; PINACEAE; PSEUDOTSUGA; PSEUDOTSUGA MENZIESII;

ABIES; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLIMATE; DOUGLAS FIR; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; MECHANICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; PLANT STEM; TREE;

ABIES; CLIMATE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLANT SHOOTS; PLANT STEMS; PSEUDOTSUGA; STRESS, MECHANICAL; TREES;

EID: 77950366029     PISSN: 0829318X     EISSN: 17584469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/treephys/tpp096     Document Type: Article

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