• DOI:10.1007/s00442-011-2021-1
Corpus ID: 25829629

Seasonal photosynthetic gas exchange and water-use efficiency in a constitutive CAM plant, the giant saguaro cactus (Carnegiea gigantea)

@article{Bronson2011SeasonalPG,
  title={Seasonal photosynthetic gas exchange and water-use efficiency in a constitutive CAM plant, the giant saguaro cactus (Carnegiea gigantea)},
  author={Dustin R. Bronson and N. B. English and D. Dettman and D. G. Williams},
  journal={Oecologia},
  year={2011},
  volume={167},
  pages={861-871}
}

Dustin R. Bronson, N. B. English, +1 author D. G. Williams

Published 2011

Biology, Medicine

Oecologia

Crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM) and the capacity to store large quantities of water are thought to confer high water use efficiency (WUE) and survival of succulent plants in warm desert environments. Yet the highly variable precipitation, temperature and humidity conditions in these environments likely have unique impacts on underlying processes regulating photosynthetic gas exchange and WUE, limiting our ability to predict growth and survival responses of desert CAM plants to climate change… CONTINUE READING

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