Rare pits, large vessels and extreme vulnerability to cavitation in a ring-porous tree species

New Phytologist

Volumn 193, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 713-720

  Christman, Mairgareth A ^a   Sperry, John S ^b   Smith, Duncan D ^b  

^a Institute for Ecohydrology Research   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Air seeding mechanism; Drought responses; Ecological wood anatomy; Embolism refilling; Rare pit hypothesis; Ring porous trees; Vulnerability curves; Xylem cavitation

Indexed keywords

WATER;

ANATOMY; CAVITATION; DECIDUOUS TREE; DEHYDRATION; DROUGHT STRESS; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; POROUS MEDIUM; SEEDING; VASCULAR PLANT; VULNERABILITY; WOOD; XYLEM;

AIR; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DEHYDRATION; HISTOLOGY; OAK; PHLOEM; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT STEM; POROSITY; TREE; XYLEM;

AIR; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DEHYDRATION; PHLOEM; PLANT STEMS; POROSITY; QUERCUS; TREES; WATER; XYLEM;

QUERCUS GAMBELII;

EID: 84855767465     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2011.03984.x     Document Type: Article

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