Seedling Traits Determine Drought Tolerance of Tropical Tree Species

By Lourens Poorter, Lars Markesteijn. 2008

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Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Leaf adaptations of evergreen and deciduous trees of semi‐arid and humid savannas on three continents (2013, background): “Few tree species’ seedlings seem able to use stored water to maintain photosynthetic activity through low soil water intervals (Poorter & Markesteijn 2008; De Smedt et al. 2012).”
General mechanisms of drought response and their application in drought resistance improvement in plants (2014, background): “When plants sense severe water deficiency, their leaves droop or roll because of the loss of cell turgor pressure and this phenomenon is called wilting [56].”
Distribution patterns of tropical woody species in response to climatic and edaphic gradients (2012, background): “Experimental studies in the shadehouse (Poorter & Markesteijn 2007) and the field (Engelbrecht, Kursar & Tyree 2005) also conclude that seasonal drought has a stronger effect on growth and survival over other factors, as it immediately affects cellular processes and plant physiology (Chaves, Maroco…”
Drought and Its Consequences to Plants – From Individual to Ecosystem (2013, background): “The three general mechanisms used by plants to cope with drought [avoidance (dormancy in the dry season), delay (through increased water uptake and reduced water loss) and physiological tolerance (maintenance of plant functioning with low cell water content)] are closely linked to the functional tra”
Rapid determination of comparative drought tolerance traits: using an osmometer to predict turgor loss point (2012, background): “Notably, po and ptlp are much better predictors of leaf drought tolerance than LMA, q, and LDMC (Poorter & Markesteijn 2008; Bartlett, Scoffoni & Sack 2012), leaf traits that have been frequently suggested as proxies for the p–v curve parameters or as indices for drought tolerance mainly because of…”
Seasonal drought limits tree species across the Neotropics (2017, background): “…showing that seedlings of species from wet tropical environments have higher mortality under water-stress than dry-distributed taxa (Engelbrecht et al. 2007, Baltzer et al. 2008, Poorter and Markesteijn 2008) indicate that water stress can have direct impacts on species survival and distribution.”
Seedling root morphology and biomass allocation of 62 tropical tree species in relation to drought‐ and shade‐tolerance (2009, methodology): “Deciduous species have a high root water content, and such water storage in roots has been found to increase the drought survival of seedlings (Poorter & Markesteijn 2008).”
Conservative species drive biomass productivity in tropical dry forests (2016, background): “Deciduousness is an important trait that enhances drought survival (Poorter & Markesteijn 2008).”