Water-use advantage for lianas over trees in tropical seasonal forests

New Phytologist

Volumn 205, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 128-136

  Chen, Ya Jun ^a,b   Cao, Kun Fang ^c   Schnitzer, Stefan A ^d,e   Fan, Ze Xin ^a   Zhang, Jiao Lin ^a   Bongers, Frans ^f  

^a KEY LABORATORY OF TROPICAL FOREST ECOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c GUANGXI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^e SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^f WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Competition; Drought tolerance; Dry season growth advantage; Sap flow; Stable isotope; Water relations; Water source; Water use efficiency

Indexed keywords

SOIL; WATER;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHINA; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; FOREST; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYSIOLOGY; SEASON; SOIL; TREE; TROPIC CLIMATE; VAPOR PRESSURE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHINA; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; FORESTS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; SEASONS; SOIL; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE; VAPOR PRESSURE; WATER;

EID: 84911908449     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/nph.13036     Document Type: Article

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