Elevated night‐time temperatures increase growth in seedlings of two tropical pioneer tree species
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Elevated night-time temperatures increase growth in seedlings of two tropical pioneer tree species.
Increased night-time temperatures, through their influence on dark respiration, have been implicated as a reason behind decreasing growth rates in tropical trees in the face of contemporary climate change. Seedlings of two neo-tropical tree species (Ficus insipida and Ochroma pyramidale) were grown in controlled-environment chambers at a constant daytime temperature (33°C) and a range of increa...
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عنوان ژورنال: New Phytologist
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0028-646X,1469-8137
DOI: 10.1111/nph.12098