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    Control of transpiration in three coffee cultivars: the role of hydraulic and crown architecture (2000)
    Springer
    Trees 14 (2000), S. 181-190 
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    ISSN: 0931-1890
    Keywords: Key words  Coffee arabica ; Hydraulic conductance ; Sap flow ; Stomata ; Stomatal decoupling coefficient
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology , Agriculture, Forestry, Horticulture, Fishery, Domestic Science, Nutrition
    Notes: Abstract  Water use and hydraulic architecture were studied in the coffee (Coffea arabica) cultivars San Ramon, Yellow Caturra and Typica growing in the field under similar environmental conditions. The cultivars differed in growth habit, crown architecture, basal sapwood area and total leaf surface area. Transpiration per unit leaf area (E), stomatal conductance (g s), crown conductance (g c), total hydraulic conductance of the soil/leaf pathway (G t) and the stomatal decoupling coefficient, omega (Ω) (Jarvis and McNaughton 1986) were assessed over a range of soil moisture and during partial defoliation treatments. The relationship between sap flow and sapwood area was linear and appeared to be similar for the three cultivars. Variation in g c, E, and G t of intact plants and leaf area-specific hydraulic conductivity (k l) of excised lateral branches was negatively correlated with variation in the ratio of leaf area to sapwood area. Transpiration, g c, and g s were positively correlated with G t. Transpiration and G t varied with total leaf area and were greatest at intermediate values (10 m2) of leaf area. Omega was greatest in Yellow Caturra, the cultivar with the greatest leaf area and a dense crown, and was smallest in Typica, the cultivar with an open crown. Differences in omega were attributable primarily to differences in leaf boundary layer conductance among the cultivars. Plants of each cultivar that were 40% defoliated maintained sap flows comparable to pretreatment plants, but expected compensatory increases in g s were not consistently observed. Despite their contrasting crown morphologies and hydraulic architecture, the three cultivars shared common relationships between water use and hydraulic architectural traits.
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/PL00009762
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  • 2
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    Environmental and physiological regulation of transpiration in tropical forest gap species: the influence of boundary layer and hydraulic properties (1995)
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    Oecologia 101 (1995), S. 514-522 
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    ISSN: 1432-1939
    Keywords: Tropical forest ; Transpiration ; Stomata ; Boundary layer ; Hydraulic conductance
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology
    Notes: Abstract Environmental and physiological regulation of transpiration were examined in several gap-colonizing shrub and tree species during two consecutive dry seasons in a moist, lowland tropical forest on Barro Colorado Island, Panama. Whole plant transpiration, stomatal and total vapor phase (stomatal + boundary layer) conductance, plant water potential and environmental variables were measured concurrently. This allowed control of transpiration (E) to be partitioned quantitatively between stomatal (g s) and boundary layer (g b) conductance and permitted the impact of invividual environmental and physiological variables on stomatal behavior and E to be assessed. Wind speed in treefall gap sites was often below the 0.25 m s−1 stalling speed of the anemometer used and was rarely above 0.5 m s−1, resulting in uniformly low g b (c. 200–300 mmol m−2 s−1) among all species studied regardless of leaf size. Stomatal conductance was typically equal to or somewhat greater than g b. This strongly decoupled E from control by stomata, so that in Miconia argentea a 10% change in g s when g s was near its mean value was predicted to yield only a 2.5% change in E. Porometric estimates of E, obtained as the product of g s and the leaf-bulk air vapor pressure difference (VPD) without taking g b into account, were up to 300% higher than actual E determined from sap flow measurements. Porometry was thus inadequate as a means of assessing the physiological consequences of stomatal behavior in different gap colonizing species. Stomatal responses to humidity strongly limited the increase in E with increasing evaporative demand. Stomata of all species studied appeared to respond to increasing evaporative demand in the same manner when the leaf surface was selected as the reference point for determination of external vapor pressure and when simultaneous variation of light and leaf-air VPD was taken into account. This result suggests that contrasting stomatal responses to similar leaf-bulk air VPD may be governed as much by the external boundary layer as by intrinsic physiological differences among species. Both E and g s initially increased sharply with increasing leaf area-specific total hydraulic conductance of the soil/root/leaf pathway (G t), becoming asymptotic at higher values of G t. For both E and g s a unique relationship appeared to describe the response of all species to variations in G t. The relatively weak correlation observed between g s and midday leaf water potential suggested that stomatal adjustment to variations in water availability coordinated E with water transport efficiency rather than bulk leaf water status.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00329432
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    Physiological and morphological variation in Metrosideros polymorpha, a dominant Hawaiian tree species, along an altitudinal gradient: the role of phenotypic plasticity (1998)
    Springer
    Oecologia 113 (1998), S. 188-196 
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    ISSN: 1432-1939
    Keywords: Key wordsMetrosideros polymorpha ; Phenotypic plasticity ; Photosynthesis ; Carbon isotope ratios ; Photosynthetic nitrogen use efficiency
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology
    Notes: Abstract Metrosideros polymorpha, a dominant tree species in Hawaiian ecosystems, occupies a wide range of habitats. Complementary field and common-garden studies of M. polymorpha populations were conducted across an altitudinal gradient at two different substrate ages to ascertain if the large phenotypic variation of this species is determined by genetic differences or by phenotypic modifications resulting from environmental conditions. Several characteristics, including ecophysiological behavior and anatomical features, were largely induced by the environment. However, other characteristics, particularly leaf morphology, appeared to be mainly determined by genetic background. Common garden plants exhibited higher average rates of net assimilation (5.8 μmol CO2 m−2 s−1) and higher average stomatal conductance (0.18 mol H2O m−2 s−1) than their field counterparts (3.0 μmol CO2 m−2 s−1, and 0.13 mol H2O m−2 s−1 respectively). Foliar δ13C of most common-garden plants was similar among sites of origin with an average value of −26.9‰. In contrast, mean values of foliar δ13C in field plants increased substantially from −29.5‰ at low elevation to −24.8‰ at high elevation. Leaf mass per unit area increased significantly as a function of elevation in both field and common garden plants; however, the range of values was much narrower in common garden plants (211–308 g m−2 for common garden versus 107–407 g m−2 for field plants). Nitrogen content measured on a leaf area basis in common garden plants ranged from 1.4 g m−2 to 2.4 g m−2 and from 0.8 g m−2 to 2.5 g m−2 in field plants. Photosynthetic nitrogen use efficiency (PNUE) decreased 50% with increasing elevation in field plants and only 20% in plants from young substrates in the common garden. This was a result of higher rates of net CO2 assimilation in the common garden plants. Leaf tissue and cell layer thickness, and degree of leaf pubescence increased significantly with elevation in field plants, whereas in common garden plants, variation with elevation of origin was much narrower, or was entirely absent. Morphological characteristics such as leaf size, petiole length, and internode length decreased with increasing elevation in the field and were retained when grown in the common garden, suggesting a potential genetic basis for these traits. The combination of environmentally induced variability in physiological and anatomical characteristics and genetically determined variation in morphological traits allows Hawaiian M. polymorpha to attain and dominate an extremely wide ecological distribution not observed in other tree species.
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s004420050367
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    Gas exchange and water balance of a mistletoe species and its mangrove hosts (1989)
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    Oecologia 78 (1989), S. 176-183 
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    ISSN: 1432-1939
    Keywords: Mistletoes ; Mangrove trees ; Gas exchange ; Water relations ; Carbon isotope ratios
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology
    Notes: Summary The gas exchange and water relations of the hemiparasite Pthirusa maritima and two its mangrove host species, Conocarpus erectus and Coccoloba uvifera, were studied in an intertidal zone of the Venezuelan coast. Carbon uptake and transpiration, leaf osmotic and total water potential, as well as nutrient content in the xylem sap and leaves of mistletoes and hosts were followed through the dry and wet season. In addition, carbon isotope ratios of leaf tissue were measured to further evaluate water use efficiency. Under similar light and humidity conditions, mistletoes had higher transpiration rates, lower leaf water potentials, and lower water use efficiencies than their hosts. Potassium content was much higher in mistletoes than in host leaves, but mineral nutrient content in the xylem sap of mistletoes was relatively low. The resistance of the liquid pathway from the soil to the leaf surface of mistletoes was larger than the total liquid flow resistance of host plants. Differences in the daily cycles of osmotic potential of the xylem sap also indicate the existence of a high resistance pathway along the vascular connection between the parasite pathway along the vascular connection between the parasite and its host. P. maritima mistletoes adjust to the different physiological characteristics of the host species which it parasitizes, thus ensuring an adequate water and carbon balance.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00377153
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    Cell proliferation after ischemic injury in gerbil brain (1985)
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    Cell & tissue research 242 (1985), S. 17-23 
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    ISSN: 1432-0878
    Keywords: Brain lesions ; 3H Thymidine incorporation ; Astrocytes ; Monocytes/Macrophages ; Capillaries ; Ischemia ; Mongolian gerbil
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology , Medicine
    Notes: Summary Tritiated thymidine autoradiography was used to measure cellular proliferation after ischemic injury in gerbil brain. Gerbils were subjected to bilateral occlusion of the common carotid arteries which resulted in areas of necrosis, or infarcts, in the posterior thalamus or midbrain. From 12 h to 10 days following the ischemia, gerbils were injected with 3H thymidine, sacrificed 4 h later, and the brains sectioned. In order to identify astrocytes and monocytes/macrophages, immunocytochemistry was performed prior to autoradiography, using antisera against glial fibrillary acidic protein and endothelial-monocyte reticuloendothelial antigen, respectively. Immunocytochemistry was also used to visualize microvessel laminin, myelin, and leakage of serum albumin. Lastly, a histochemical procedure for acid phosphatase activity was employed to verify cellular phagocytic activity in the wound. A reproducible sequence of reactions took place during the first 10 days after ischemia. Early changes included leakage of albumin and myelin breakdown, followed by arrival of monocytes at 2 days and their differentiation into macrophages by 5 days. These cells exhibited intense proliferation from 2 to 6 days post-ischemia. Microvessel endothelial cells were maximally labeled at 4 days post-ischemia. Hypertrophied astrocytes were apparent at 2 days and proliferated from 3 to 7 days post-ischemia, and by 10 days the wound was replaced by a “glial scar”.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00225558
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