Shoot desiccation and hydraulic failure in temperate woody angiosperms during an extreme summer drought

New Phytologist

Volumn 200, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 322-329

  Nardini, Andrea ^a   Battistuzzo, Marta ^a   Savi, Tadeja ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cavitation; Crown desiccation; Drought; Hydraulic failure; Safety margin; Stem density; Stem water potential; Tree mortality

Indexed keywords

ANGIOSPERM; CAVITATION; DESICCATION; DIEBACK; DROUGHT; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; MORTALITY; PLANT WATER RELATIONS; SHOOT; STEM; SUMMER; TREE; WOODLAND;

MAGNOLIOPHYTA;

WATER;

ANGIOSPERM; ARTICLE; CAVITATION; CLIMATE; CROWN DESICCATION; DESICCATION; DROUGHT; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; HISTOLOGY; HYDRAULIC FAILURE; ITALY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; PLANT STEM; SAFETY MARGIN; SEASON; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STEM DENSITY; STEM WATER POTENTIAL; TREE MORTALITY; WOOD; XYLEM;

CAVITATION; CROWN DESICCATION; DROUGHT; HYDRAULIC FAILURE; SAFETY MARGIN; STEM DENSITY; STEM WATER POTENTIAL; TREE MORTALITY;

ANGIOSPERMS; CLIMATE; DESICCATION; ITALY; PLANT SHOOTS; PLANT STEMS; PLANT TRANSPIRATION; SEASONS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; WATER; WOOD; XYLEM;

EID: 84884413299     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/nph.12288     Document Type: Article

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