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Response of two perennial grasses to water availability in different habitats related to successional change under Mediterranean climate conditions

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Plant Response to Stress

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Abstract

Water is the main factor limiting plant growth under mediterranean climate conditions. Relationships between drought duration and plant distribution, morphology, phenology, and physiology have been well established (Mooney and Dunn 1970; Mooney 1981; Miller 1982). The general pattern in vegetation changes (winter deciduous trees to evergreen trees to evergreen shrubs to drought deciduous shrubs and finally to succulents as drought duration increases) applies both for plants along spatial aridity gradients and for plants with roots which occupy different soil depths (Mooney 1982; Davies and Mooney 1985). Drought-evading herbaceous species are characteristically associated with the dominant woody species (Escarré et al. 1983; Naveh and Whittaker 1979) or may form communities of their own, such as grasslands (Heady 1977).

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  1. Laboratoire de physiologie écologique, Centre Emberger, CNRS, BP 5051, 34033, Montpellier Cedex, France

    J. Roy, E. Garnier & L. E. Jackson

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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

    Otto L. Lange

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Roy, J., Garnier, E., Jackson, L.E. (1987). Response of two perennial grasses to water availability in different habitats related to successional change under Mediterranean climate conditions. 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_10

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