9 research outputs found
Herbivory affects leaf and plant water relations in tropical forests
Herz H, Engelbrecht BMJ, Beyschlag W. Herbivory affects leaf and plant water relations in tropical forests. In: Zotz G, ed. Funktionelle Bedeutung von Biodiversität. Verhandlungen der Gesellschaft für Ökologie. Vol 31. Berlin: Parey; 2001: 313-313
Efficiency-safety in lianas and trees
Hydraulic traits are important for woody plant functioning and distribution. Associations among hydraulic traits, other leaf and stem traits, and species’ performance are relatively well understood for trees, but remain poorly studied for lianas. We evaluated the coordination among hydraulic efficiency (i.e. maximum hydraulic conductivity), hydraulic safety (i.e. cavitation resistance), a suite of 8 morphological and physiological traits, and species’ abundances for saplings of 24 liana species and 27 tree species in wet tropical forests in Panama