Diversity in nighttime transpiration behavior of woody species of the Atlantic Rain Forest, Brazil

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 158-159, Issue , 2012, Pages 13-20

  Rosado, Bruno H P ^a   Oliveira, Rafael S ^a   Joly, Carlos A ^a   Aidar, Marcos P M ^b   Burgess, Stephen S O ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

^b Instituto de Pesquisas Ambientais do Estado de São Paulo   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cooling effect; Latent heat flux; Micrometeorology; Sap flow; Sensible heat flux; Xylem refilling

Indexed keywords

COOLING; ENERGY BUDGET; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; INTERSPECIFIC VARIATION; LATENT HEAT FLUX; MICROCLIMATE; MICROMETEOROLOGY; MONTANE FOREST; NOCTURNAL ACTIVITY; PHYSIOLOGY; RAINFOREST; SAP FLOW; SENSIBLE HEAT FLUX; THERMODYNAMICS; TRANSPIRATION; UNDERSTORY; VAPOR PRESSURE; WOODY PLANT; XYLEM;

ATLANTIC FOREST; BRAZIL;

EID: 84857517107     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2012.02.002     Document Type: Article

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