Does leaf shedding protect stems from cavitation during seasonal droughts? A test of the hydraulic fuse hypothesis

New Phytologist

Volumn 212, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 1007-1018

  Wolfe, Brett T ^a,b   Sperry, John S ^a   Kursar, Thomas A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

Author keywords

drought deciduousness; hydraulic limitation; hydraulic segmentation hypothesis; leaf abscission; leaf phenology; seasonally dry tropical forest; xylem cavitation

Indexed keywords

ABSCISSION; CAVITATION; DROUGHT STRESS; DRY SEASON; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; LEAF; PHENOLOGY; SAPLING; SEASONALITY; TRANSPIRATION; TREE; TROPICAL FOREST; XYLEM;

GENIPA AMERICANA;

WATER;

ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DROUGHT; GAS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT LEAF; PLANT STEM; PLANT STOMA; SEASON; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TIME FACTOR; TREE;

DROUGHTS; GASES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT STEMS; PLANT STOMATA; SEASONS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS; TREES; WATER;

EID: 84978141898     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/nph.14087     Document Type: Article

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