The incidence and implications of clouds for cloud forest plant water relations

Ecology Letters

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 307-314

  Goldsmith, Gregory R ^a   Matzke, Nicholas J ^a   Dawson, Todd E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Costa Rica; Fog; Foliar uptake; Leaf wetness; MODIS; Sap flow; Seasonality; Tropical montane cloud forest

Indexed keywords

EID: 84931748955     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ele.12039     Document Type: Article

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