How do trees die? A test of the hydraulic failure and carbon starvation hypotheses

Despite decades of research on plant drought tolerance, the physiological mechanisms by which trees succumb to drought are still under debate. We report results from an experiment designed to separate and test the current leading hypotheses of tree mortality. We show that piñon pine (Pinus edulis) t...

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Published in:Plant Cell Environ
Main Authors: Sevanto, Sanna, Mcdowell, Nate G, Dickman, L Turin, Pangle, Robert, Pockman, William T
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: BlackWell Publishing Ltd 2014
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4280888/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23730972
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1111/pce.12141
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