Drought tolerance and thermal effect measurements for plants suitable for extensive green roof planting in humid subtropical climates

Energy and Buildings

Volumn 47, Issue , 2012, Pages 180-188

  Liu, T C ^a   Shyu, G S ^b   Fang, W T ^c   Liu, S Y ^a   Cheng, B Y ^d  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b TUNGNAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c CHUNG HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

CAM plant; Drought tolerant plant; Thermal effect measurement; Thin layer green roof

Indexed keywords

CARBON EMISSIONS; CRASSULACEAN ACID METABOLISM; DROUGHT CONDITIONS; DROUGHT TOLERANCES; EUPHORBIACEAE; GREEN BUILDINGS; GREEN ROOF; PHYSIOLOGICAL MECHANISMS; PLANT HEIGHT; PLANT SELECTION; REGULATORY EFFECTS; SUBTROPICAL CLIMATES; TEMPERATURE REDUCTION; THIN LAYERS;

AGRONOMY; CAMS; CARBOXYLIC ACIDS; DROUGHT; EMISSION CONTROL; EXPERIMENTS; PHYSIOLOGY; WATER CONSERVATION; WATER RESOURCES;

ROOFS;

EID: 84857057284     PISSN: 03787788     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enbuild.2011.11.043     Document Type: Article

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