Water relations and microclimate around the upper limit of a cloud forest in Maui, Hawai'i

Tree Physiology

Volumn 34, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 766-777

  Gotsch, Sybil G ^a   Crausbay, Shelley D ^b,g   Giambelluca, Thomas W ^c   Weintraub, Alexis E ^d   Longman, Ryan J ^c   Asbjornsen, Heidi ^e   Hotchkiss, Sara C ^b   Dawson, Todd E ^f  

^a FRANKLIN AND MARSHALL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^d Yale University   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability   (United States)

Author keywords

'ohi'a; Metrosideros polymorpha; nighttime transpiration; pressure volume relations; sap flow; stomatal conductance; trade wind inversion; tropical montane cloud forest ecophysiology; water stress

Indexed keywords

CLOUD FOREST; DROUGHT STRESS; ECOPHYSIOLOGY; MICROCLIMATE; RAINFALL; SAP FLOW; SHRUBLAND; STOMATAL CONDUCTANCE; TRADE WIND; TRANSPIRATION; VAPOR PRESSURE; WATER BUDGET; WATER RELATIONS;

HAWAII [UNITED STATES]; HAWAIIAN ISLANDS; MAUI; UNITED STATES;

WATER;

ALTITUDE; DROUGHT; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; FOREST; METABOLISM; MICROCLIMATE; PHYSIOLOGY; TREE; UNITED STATES;

ALTITUDE; DROUGHTS; FORESTS; HAWAII; MICROCLIMATE; PLANT TRANSPIRATION; TREES; WATER;

EID: 84906225851     PISSN: 0829318X     EISSN: 17584469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/treephys/tpu050     Document Type: Article

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