Transpiration sensitivity of urban trees in a semi-arid climate is constrained by xylem vulnerability to cavitation

Tree Physiology

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 373-388

  Litvak, Elizaveta ^a   McCarthy, Heather R ^b   Pataki, Diane E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

stomatal control; xylem embolism

Indexed keywords

WATER;

ANATOMY; CAVITATION; DIFFUSION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SAP FLOW; SEMIARID REGION; TRANSPIRATION; TREE; VAPOR PRESSURE; VULNERABILITY; XYLEM;

ARTICLE; CLIMATE; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; PHLOEM; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT STOMA; TREE; UNITED STATES; VAPOR PRESSURE; WOOD; XYLEM;

CLIMATE; LOS ANGELES; PHLOEM; PLANT STOMATA; PLANT TRANSPIRATION; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TREES; VAPOR PRESSURE; WATER; WOOD; XYLEM;

CALIFORNIA; LOS ANGELES [CALIFORNIA]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84860466329     PISSN: 0829318X     EISSN: 17584469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/treephys/tps015     Document Type: Article

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