Environmental Tolerance

Encyclopedia of Ecology, Five-Volume Set

Volumn 1-5, Issue , 2008, Pages 1370-1376

  Niinemets, U ^a   Valladares, F ^b  

^a ESTONIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Estonia)

^b INSTITUTO DE RECURSOS NATURALES   (Spain)

Author keywords

Acclimation; Co limitations; Ecological optimum; Interacting environmental factors; Law of the minimum; Law of tolerance; Limiting factors; Physiological optimum; Plasticity; Polytolerance; Stress; Stress factor; Stress response

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871692224     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-008045405-4.00826-0     Document Type: Chapter

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