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Night and day: Shrinking and swelling of stems of diverse mangrove species growing along environmental gradients

Tree stems swell and shrink daily, which is thought to reflect changes in the volume of water within stem tissues. We observed these daily patterns using automatic dendrometer bands in a diverse group of mangrove species over five mangrove forests across Australia and New Caledonia. We found that ma...

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Autores principales: Vilas, Maria P., Adams, Matthew P., Ball, Marilyn C., Meynecke, Jan-Olaf, Santini, Nadia S., Swales, Andrew, Lovelock, Catherine E.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6719867/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31479477
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0221950