Foggy days and dry nights determine crown-level water balance in a seasonal tropical montane cloud forest

Plant, Cell and Environment

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 261-272

  Gotsch, Sybil G ^a   Asbjornsen, Heidi ^b   Holwerda, Friso ^c   Goldsmith, Gregory R ^d   Weintraub, Alexis E ^e   Dawson, Todd E ^d  

^a FRANKLIN AND MARSHALL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e Yale University   (United States)

Author keywords

Canopy ecophysiology; Canopy microclimate; Environmental drivers of transpiration; Evaporative demand; Fog; Heat pulse technique; Mexico; Quercus lanceifolia; Sap flow; Seasonality

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; CLOUD FOREST; DRY SEASON; ECOPHYSIOLOGY; FOG; MICROCLIMATE; MOUNTAIN ENVIRONMENT; SAP FLOW; STOMATAL CONDUCTANCE; TRANSPIRATION; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; VAPOR PRESSURE; VOLUME; WATER BUDGET;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; VERACRUZ;

QUERCUS;

WATER;

ARTICLE; CANOPY ECOPHYSIOLOGY; CANOPY MICROCLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL DRIVERS OF TRANSPIRATION; EVAPORATIVE DEMAND; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; FOG; HEAT PULSE TECHNIQUE; MEXICO; MICROCLIMATE; OAK; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT LEAF; QUERCUS LANCEIFOLIA; SAP FLOW; SEASON; SEASONAL VARIATION; TREE; TROPIC CLIMATE; WEATHER;

CANOPY ECOPHYSIOLOGY; CANOPY MICROCLIMATE; ENVIRONMENTAL DRIVERS OF TRANSPIRATION; EVAPORATIVE DEMAND; FOG; HEAT PULSE TECHNIQUE; MEXICO; QUERCUS LANCEIFOLIA; SAP FLOW; SEASONALITY;

ECOSYSTEM; MEXICO; MICROCLIMATE; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT TRANSPIRATION; QUERCUS; SEASONS; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE; WATER; WEATHER;

EID: 84897093419     PISSN: 01407791     EISSN: 13653040     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/pce.12151     Document Type: Article

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