Responses to flooding of plant water relations and leaf gas exchange in tropical tolerant trees of a black-water wetland

This review summarizes the research on physiological responses to flooding of trees in the seasonal black-water wetland of the Mapire River in Venezuela. Inter-annual variability was found during eight years of sampling, in spite of which a general picture emerged of increased stomatal conductance (...

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Main Author: Ana eHerrera
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2013-05-01
Series:Frontiers in Plant Science
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpls.2013.00106/full