Environmental control of daily stem growth patterns in five temperate broad-leaved tree species

Tree Physiology

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1021-1032

  Köcher, Paul ^a   Horna, Viviana ^a   Leuschner, Christoph ^a   Abrams, Marc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

air humidity; Fagus sylvatica; Fraxinus excelsior; point dendrometers, radial stem growth; seasonality of growth; soil moisture; stem water status; water vapor pressure deficit

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

DECIDUOUS TREE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GROWTH RATE; HUMIDITY; PRECISION; RAINFALL; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; SEASONALITY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL TEMPERATURE; STEM; SURVIVAL; SYNCHRONY; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT; TRANSPIRATION; TREE RING; VAPOR PRESSURE; WATER VAPOR;

ACER; ANGIOSPERM; ARTICLE; BEECH; BETULACEAE; CELL DIVISION; CLIMATE; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; FRAXINUS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMIDITY; LIGHT; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT LEAF; PLANT STEM; SEASON; SOIL; TEMPERATURE; TILIA; TREE; WATER VAPOR;

ACER; ANGIOSPERMS; BETULACEAE; CELL DIVISION; CLIMATE; FAGUS; FRAXINUS; HUMIDITY; LIGHT; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT STEMS; PLANT TRANSPIRATION; RAIN; SEASONS; SOIL; STEAM; TEMPERATURE; TILIA; TREES;

EID: 84865190793     PISSN: 0829318X     EISSN: 17584469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/treephys/tps049     Document Type: Article

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