The role of defoliation and root rot pathogen infection in driving the mode of drought-related physiological decline in Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.)

Tree Physiology

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 229-242

  Aguade D ^a,b   Poyatos, R ^a   Gomez M ^c   Oliva, J ^d   Martinez Vilalta J ^a,b  

^a CREAF   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c Laboratory of Plant Ecology and Forest Botany   (Spain)

^d SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Die off; Fungi pathogen; Global change; Hydraulic failure; Non structural carbohydrates

Indexed keywords

BASAL AREA; CARBOHYDRATE; CONIFEROUS TREE; DEFOLIATION; DROUGHT; FIELD METHOD; GLOBAL CHANGE; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; MORTALITY; PATHOGEN; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; POPULATION DECLINE; ROOT ROT; SEASONAL VARIATION; VULNERABILITY;

IBERIAN PENINSULA;

FUNGI; ONNIA; PINUS SYLVESTRIS;

STARCH;

BASIDIOMYCETES; DROUGHT; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT DISEASE; PLANT LEAF; PLANT ROOT; SCOTS PINE; VASCULAR BUNDLE (PLANT);

BASIDIOMYCOTA; DROUGHTS; PINUS SYLVESTRIS; PLANT DISEASES; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT ROOTS; PLANT VASCULAR BUNDLE; STARCH;

EID: 84937568190     PISSN: 0829318X     EISSN: 17584469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/treephys/tpv005     Document Type: Article

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