High-temperature tolerance of a tropical tree, Ficus insipida: Methodological reassessment and climate change considerations

Functional Plant Biology

Volumn 37, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 890-900

  Krause, G Heinrich ^a,b   Winter, Klaus ^a   Krause, Barbara ^a   Jahns, Peter ^b   García, Milton ^a   Aranda, Jorge ^a   Virgo, Aurelio ^a  

^a SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^b HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

biomass; growth; photosynthetic pigments; tropical forest; xanthophyll cycle

Indexed keywords

AFTER-HEAT TREATMENT; ANTHROPOGENIC GLOBAL WARMING; CHLOROPHYLL A FLUORESCENCE; ELEVATED TEMPERATURE; FLUORESCENCE EMISSION; GROWTH; HEAT STRESS; HEAT TOLERANCE; HIGH TEMPERATURE; IN-SITU; LEAF DAMAGE; LEAF TEMPERATURE; LETHAL TEMPERATURE; MATURE TREES; PHOTOSYNTHETIC PIGMENTS; SEASONAL CHANGES; SUN LEAVES; TISSUE DAMAGE; TREE SPECIES; TROPICAL FOREST; TROPICAL TREE; XANTHOPHYLL CYCLE;

CHLOROPHYLL; GLOBAL WARMING; HEAT TREATMENT; PLANTS (BOTANY); PORPHYRINS; TROPICS;

FLUORESCENCE;

ACCLIMATION; ASSESSMENT METHOD; BIOMASS; CHLOROPHYLL; CULTIVATION; FLUORESCENCE; GLOBAL WARMING; GROWTH RATE; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; MATURATION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEEDLING; SHRUB; SUCCESSION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TOLERANCE; TROPICAL FOREST; WILD POPULATION;

FICUS INSIPIDA; VIROLA SEBIFERA;

EID: 77956299547     PISSN: 14454408     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/FP10034     Document Type: Article

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