Carbohydrate dynamics and mortality in a piñon-juniper woodland under three future precipitation scenarios

Plant Cell and Environment

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 729-739

  Dickman, Lee T ^a   Mcdowell, Nate G ^a   Sevanto, Sanna ^a   Pangle, Robert E ^b   Pockman, William T ^b  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

Anisohydric; Climate; Die off; Hydraulics; Isohydric; Plant; Storage; Sugars; Vegetation; Water relations

Indexed keywords

CARBOHYDRATE; DESICCATION; DROUGHT; FOLIAGE; GLOBAL CHANGE; MORTALITY; OSMOREGULATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEASONAL VARIATION; STARCH; STOMATAL CONDUCTANCE; WOODLAND;

CONIFEROPHYTA; JUNIPERUS; JUNIPERUS MONOSPERMA; PINUS EDULIS;

CARBOHYDRATE; CARBON; RAIN; SOIL; WATER;

BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DROUGHT; ECOSYSTEM; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; FOREST; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; JUNIPERUS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYSIOLOGY; PINE; PLANT LEAF; SEASON; SOIL; TREE;

CARBOHYDRATES; CARBON; DROUGHTS; ECOSYSTEM; FORESTS; JUNIPERUS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PINUS; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT TRANSPIRATION; RAIN; SEASONS; SOIL; TREES; WATER;

EID: 84924759341     PISSN: 01407791     EISSN: 13653040     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/pce.12441     Document Type: Article

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