Summer drought survival strategies and sustainability of perennial temperate forage grasses in Mediterranean areas.

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Designing resilient and sustainable grasslands for a drier future: Adaptive strategies, functional traits and biotic interactions (2013, methodology): “Traits associated with drought survival have been much less explored (Volaire et al. 2009) although recent efforts to explore the physiological mechanisms of droughtinduced mortality have been made in trees and show the relative importance of carbon starvation and hydraulic failure in these model pl”
Persistence and production of perennial grasses under water deficits and extreme temperatures: importance of intraspecific vs. interspecific variability (2012, background): “Forage persistence during severe drought is governed by mechanisms other than resistance to moderate droughts (Milbau et al., 2005; Volaire et al., 2009) and is dependent on the plant’s ability to maintain a viable crown at the soil surface from which growth regenerates following the renewed availab”
Tradeoffs between functional strategies for resource-use and drought-survival in Mediterranean rangeland species (2013, background): “The maintenance of turgor and membrane stability in basal meristematic tissues under severe drought has been identified as a key adaptive mechanism to ensure plant persistence until the arrival of the first rains in Mediterranean perennial plant species (Blum, 1996; Volaire et al., 2009).”