Water supply regulates structure, productivity, and water use efficiency of Acacia koa forest in Hawaii
- Author:
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Ares, A., Fownes, J.H.
- Title:
- Water supply regulates structure, productivity, and water use efficiency of Acacia koa forest in Hawaii
- Periodical:
- Oecologia
- Year:
- 1999
- Volume:
- 121
- Pages:
- 458-466
- Subject:
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Forest productivity
Koa
Acacia koa
Forests and forestry Hawaii Island
Water supply
Carbon isotopes
- Summary:
- Forests adjust structurally and physiologically to the limitation of insufficient water. As a result, this study was done to determine whether the net primary productivity of the native Hawaiian Koa (Acacia koa Gray) tree species that occur on the island of Hawaii was limited by water availability and to determine how forest structure, canopy development, and resource use efficiency varied with this water limitation. Another objective was to determine if whether these patterns reflected general trends of plant adaptation to water limitation.
- Label:
- Botany - Koa
- URL:
- http://cletus.uhh.hawaii.edu:2074/10.1007/s004420050952
- Date:
- December 1999
- Collection:
- Periodicals