The hydroclimatic and ecophysiological basis of cloud forest distributions under current and projected climates

Annals of Botany

Volumn 113, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 909-920

  Oliveira, Rafael S ^a,b   Eller, Cleiton B ^a   Bittencourt, Paulo R L ^a   Mulligan, Mark ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cavitation; Climate change; Drimys brasiliensis; Drought; ecohydrology; Fog; Foliar water uptake; Hydraulic failure; Neotropics; Plant water relations; Tropical montane cloud forest

Indexed keywords

CAVITATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLOUD FOREST; ECOHYDROLOGY; ECOPHYSIOLOGY; ENDEMISM; FOG; HYDRAULICS; MICROCLIMATE; NEOTROPICAL REGION; WATER UPTAKE; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; HYDROMETEOROLOGY; MONTANE FOREST; PLANT WATER RELATIONS;

DRIMYS BRASILIENSIS;

BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE; ECOLOGY; FOREST;

BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE; ECOLOGY; FORESTS;

EID: 84899539149     PISSN: 03057364     EISSN: 10958290     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcu060     Document Type: Review

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