Structural determinants of increased susceptibility to dehydration-induced cavitation in post-fire resprouting chaparral shrubs

Plant Cell and Environment

Volumn 39, Issue 11, 2016, Pages 2473-2485

  Jacobsen, Anna L ^a   Tobin, Michael F ^b   Toschi, Hayden S ^a   Percolla, Marta I ^a   Pratt, R Brandon ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON DOWNTOWN   (United States)

Author keywords

chaparral; embolism; modulus of rupture; pit area; pit membrane; vessel density; vessel diameter; vessel element length; vessel length; vulnerability to cavitation

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICS; CAVITATION; CELLS AND CELL COMPONENTS; DEHYDRATION; DROUGHT; FIRE; GAS EXCHANGE; GROWTH RATE; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; MORTALITY RISK; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; RESPROUTING; SHRUB; SHRUBLAND; TRANSPIRATION; VULNERABILITY; XYLEM;

ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; BIOMECHANICS; DEHYDRATION; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; FIRE; HYDRODYNAMICS; METABOLISM; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT; TIME FACTOR; XYLEM;

BIOMECHANICAL PHENOMENA; DEHYDRATION; FIRES; HYDRODYNAMICS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT TRANSPIRATION; PLANTS; TIME FACTORS; XYLEM;

EID: 84988418734     PISSN: 01407791     EISSN: 13653040     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/pce.12802     Document Type: Article

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