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Water supply regulates structure, productivity, and water use efficiency of Acacia koa forest in Hawaii

Author:
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:
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