Does plant height determine the freezing resistance in the páramo plants?

Austral Ecology

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 929-934

  Sklenář, Petr ^a   Kučerová, Andrea ^b   Macek, Petr ^b,c   Macková, Jana ^c  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (Czech Republic)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Avoidance; Extracellular ice; Freezing injury; Supercooling; Tolerance

Indexed keywords

AVOIDANCE REACTION; COLD TOLERANCE; FREEZING; HEIGHT; INJURY; MICROCLIMATE; SNOWLINE; SUPERCOOLING; TREELINE;

ANDES; COSTA RICA; PERU;

EID: 78649670854     PISSN: 14429985     EISSN: 14429993     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-9993.2009.02104.x     Document Type: Article

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