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Gas exchange methods for characterizing the impact of stress on leaves

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Plant Response to Stress

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Abstract

Mediterranean climates are characterized by moist, mild winters and hot, dry summers, thus exposing the leaves of evergreen sclerophyllous mediterranean vegetation to both of these weather regimes. Production and growth take place primarily during favorable conditions in the fall and spring, whereas metabolic activity becomes limited in most species as soil moisture stress and high atmospheric evaporative demand, coupled with high radiation loads, develop during the summer. While cold stress may occur during the winter that is harmful to cold-sensitive species, summer drought seems in general to play the major role in limiting growth of evergreen sclerophylls. They are usually replaced by rain-green malacophyllous deciduous vegetation as climatic conditions become drier towards the desert belts of the world.

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  1. Lehrstuhl für Botanik II, Universität Würzburg, Mittlerer Dallenbergweg 64, 8700, Würzburg, West Germany

    O. L. Lange & W. Beyschlag

  2. Systems Ecology Research Group, San Diego State University, San Diego, California, USA

    P. C. Harley & J. D. Tenhunen

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  1. Systems Ecology Research Group, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, 92182, USA

    John D. Tenhunen  & Walter C. Oechel  & 

  2. Department of Plant Biology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon, 1294, Lisbon, Portugal

    Fernando M. Catarino

  3. Lehrstuhl für Botanik II, der Universität Würzburg, Mittlerer Dallenbergweg 64, 8700, Würzburg, Germany

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Lange, O.L., Harley, P.C., Beyschlag, W., Tenhunen, J.D. (1987). Gas exchange methods for characterizing the impact of stress on leaves. In: Tenhunen, J.D., Catarino, F.M., Lange, O.L., Oechel, W.C. (eds) Plant Response to Stress. NATO ASI Series, vol 15. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-70868-8_1

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