Morphological and physiological differentiation of seedlings between dry and wet habitats in a tropical dry forest

Plant, Cell and Environment

Volumn 34, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1536-1547

  Pineda García, Fernando ^a   Paz, Horacio ^a   Tinoco Ojanguren, Clara ^b  

^a INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES EN ECOSISTEMAS Y SUSTENTABILIDAD   (Mexico)

^b INSTITUTO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Functional niche partitioning; Functional trade offs; Leaf retention; Stem density; Tropical dry forest seedlings; Water storage capacity; Water use efficiency

Indexed keywords

WATER;

ADAPTATION; DRY FOREST; HABITAT SELECTION; LEAF; MORPHOLOGY; NICHE PARTITIONING; PHYSIOLOGY; SEEDLING; SOIL WATER; STEM; WATER STORAGE; WATER STRESS; WATER USE EFFICIENCY;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; DROUGHT; ECOSYSTEM; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; METABOLISM; MEXICO; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT LEAF; PLANT SEED; PLANT STEM; SEASON; SEEDLING; SOIL; TREE; TROPIC CLIMATE; XYLEM;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; DROUGHTS; ECOSYSTEM; MEXICO; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT STEMS; PLANT TRANSPIRATION; SEASONS; SEEDLING; SEEDS; SOIL; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE; WATER; XYLEM;

EID: 80051590153     PISSN: 01407791     EISSN: 13653040     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3040.2011.02351.x     Document Type: Article

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