Drought-sensitivity ranking of deciduous tree species based on thermal imaging of forest canopies

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 151, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1632-1640

  Scherrer, Daniel ^a   Bader, Martin Karl Friedrich ^a,b   Körner, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Canopy foliage temperature; Infrared thermography; Leaf energy balance; Leaf temperature; Sap flow; Species ranking

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DECIDUOUS FOREST; DROUGHT STRESS; ENERGY BALANCE; FOREST CANOPY; ROOTING; SAP FLOW; SOIL WATER POTENTIAL; TRANSPIRATION;

CENTRAL EUROPE;

ACER; ACER PSEUDOPLATANUS; FAGUS; FAGUS SYLVATICA; FRAXINUS; FRAXINUS EXCELSIOR; FRAXINUS SYLVATICA; MALVACEAE; PRUNUS; PRUNUS AVIUM; QUERCUS PETRAEA; TILIA PLATYPHYLLOS;

EID: 80054880626     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2011.06.019     Document Type: Article

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