Hydraulic limits on maximum plant transpiration and the emergence of the safety-efficiency trade-off

New Phytologist

Volumn 198, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 169-178

  Manzoni, Stefano ^a,b   Vico, Giulia ^c   Katul, Gabriel ^a,b   Palmroth, Sari ^b,c   Jackson, Robert B ^b   Porporato, Amilcare ^a,b  

^a Duke University   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Hydraulic limitation; Safety efficiency trade off; Soil plant atmosphere model; Trait coordination; Transpiration; Vulnerability to cavitation; Xylem conductivity

Indexed keywords

WATER;

CAVITATION; EMERGENCE; EVAPORATION; GROWTH RATE; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; OPTIMIZATION; SOIL-VEGETATION INTERACTION; STOMATA; STOMATAL CONDUCTANCE; TRADE-OFF; TRANSPIRATION; VULNERABILITY; XYLEM;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLIMATE; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; PHYSIOLOGY; XYLEM;

CLIMATE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLANT TRANSPIRATION; WATER; XYLEM;

EID: 84874197905     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/nph.12126     Document Type: Article

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