Coordination of physiological traits involved in drought-induced mortality of woody plants

New Phytologist

Volumn 208, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 396-409

  Mencuccini, Maurizio ^a,b   Minunno, Francesco ^c   Salmon, Yann ^a   Martínez Vilalta, Jordi ^b,d   Hölttä, Teemu ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b CREAF   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^d UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Drought induced mortality; Optimality; Phloem transport; Phloem viscosity; Photosynthetic down regulation; Source sink relationships; Water stress; Xylem embolism

Indexed keywords

CARBOHYDRATE; DROUGHT; GAS EXCHANGE; MORTALITY; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; STOMATAL CONDUCTANCE; WATER STRESS; WATER USE; WOODY PLANT; XYLEM;

SOIL;

BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DROUGHT; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT STOMA; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; SOIL; STATISTICAL MODEL; WOOD; XYLEM;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DROUGHTS; LINEAR MODELS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLANT STOMATA; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; SOIL; WOOD; XYLEM;

EID: 84942828967     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/nph.13461     Document Type: Article

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