A carbon cost-gain model explains the observed patterns of xylem safety and efficiency

Plant, Cell and Environment

Volumn 34, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1819-1834

  Hölttä, Teemu ^a   Mencuccini, Maurizio ^b   Nikinmaa, Eero ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cavitation; Conduit tapering; Hydraulic architecture; Murray's law; Optimality; Pipe model; Pit membrane; WBE model

Indexed keywords

CARBON; WATER;

CARBON; CAVITATION; HYDRAULIC STRUCTURE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MEMBRANE; NUMERICAL MODEL; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; POROUS MEDIUM; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; VULNERABILITY; XYLEM;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HISTOLOGY; METABOLISM; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHYSIOLOGY; SOIL; STATISTICAL MODEL; TREE; XYLEM;

CARBON; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LINEAR MODELS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; SOIL; TREES; WATER; XYLEM;

EID: 80053651311     PISSN: 01407791     EISSN: 13653040     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3040.2011.02377.x     Document Type: Article

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