Toward an index of desiccation time to tree mortality under drought

Plant Cell and Environment

Volumn 39, Issue 10, 2016, Pages 2342-2345

  Blackman, Chris J ^a   Pfautsch, Sebastian ^a   Choat, Brendan ^a   Delzon, Sylvain ^b   Gleason, Sean M ^c   Duursma, Remko A ^a  

^a WESTERN SYDNEY UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^c AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOMETRY; DESICCATION; DROUGHT; DROUGHT STRESS; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; KNOWLEDGE; MORTALITY; RESEARCH WORK; STOMATAL CONDUCTANCE; THRESHOLD; TREE;

WATER;

BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DEHYDRATION; DROUGHT; HYDRODYNAMICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PLANT; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

DEHYDRATION; DROUGHTS; HYDRODYNAMICS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLANT PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; PLANTS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; WATER;

EID: 84985920018     PISSN: 01407791     EISSN: 13653040     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/pce.12758     Document Type: Article

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