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

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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Main Authors: Maria P Vilas, Matthew P Adams, Marilyn C Ball, Jan-Olaf Meynecke, Nadia S Santini, Andrew Swales, Catherine E Lovelock
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0221950

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