Functional adjustments of xylem anatomy to climatic variability: Insights from long-Term Ilex aquifolium tree-ring series

Tree Physiology

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 817-828

  Rita, Angelo ^a   Cherubini, Paolo ^b   Leonardi, Stefano ^c   Todaro, Luigi ^a   Borghetti, Marco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASILICATA   (Italy)

^b SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

European holly; precipitation; ring width; temperature; vessel characteristics; wood anatomy.

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; CAVITATION; CELLS AND CELL COMPONENTS; CLIMATE CHANGE; EVERGREEN TREE; FUNCTIONAL CHANGE; GROWTH RATE; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; INDUCED RESPONSE; LONG-TERM CHANGE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TOLERANCE; TREE RING; WOOD; XYLEM;

ITALY; SWITZERLAND;

ILEX; ILEX AQUIFOLIUM;

CARBON; RAIN; WATER;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; CLIMATE; DROUGHT; ILEX; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT STEM; TEMPERATURE; TREE; XYLEM;

ACCLIMATIZATION; CARBON; CLIMATE; DROUGHTS; ILEX; PLANT STEMS; RAIN; TEMPERATURE; TREES; WATER; XYLEM;

EID: 84940727900     PISSN: 0829318X     EISSN: 17584469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/treephys/tpv055     Document Type: Article

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