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Frederick C. Meinzer
Researcher at United States Forest Service
Publications - 285
Citations - 26850
Frederick C. Meinzer is an academic researcher from United States Forest Service. The author has contributed to research in topics: Transpiration & Stomatal conductance. The author has an hindex of 94, co-authored 279 publications receiving 24296 citations. Previous affiliations of Frederick C. Meinzer include University of California, Los Angeles & University of Washington.
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Carbon dynamics in trees: feast or famine?
TL;DR: It is proposed that in the face of environmental stochasticity, large, long-lived trees may require larger C investments in storage pools as safety margins than previously recognized, and that an important function of these pools may be to maintain hydraulic transport, particularly during episodes of severe stress.
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A review of whole-plant water use studies in tree.
TL;DR: A survey of 52 studies conducted since 1970 indicated that rates of water use ranged from 10 kg day(-1) for trees in a 32-year-old plantation of Quercus petraea L. ex Liebl. in eastern France to 1,180 kg day−1 for an overstory Euperua purpurea Bth. in the Amazonian rainforest.
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Xylem hydraulic safety margins in woody plants: coordination of stomatal control of xylem tension with hydraulic capacitance
Frederick C. Meinzer,Daniel M. Johnson,Barbara Lachenbruch,Katherine A. McCulloh,David R. Woodruff +4 more
TL;DR: There is a continuum of relative reliance on different mechanisms that confer hydraulic safety under dynamic conditions, suggesting a diminishing role of stem capacitance in slowing fluctuations in xylem pressure as Ystem min became more negative.
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Stem water storage and diurnal patterns of water use in tropical forest canopy trees
Guillermo Goldstein,José Luis Andrade,Frederick C. Meinzer,Noel Michele Holbrook,Jaime Cavelier,Paula C. Jackson,A. Celis +6 more
TL;DR: Stem water storage capacity and diurnal patterns of water use were studied in five canopy trees of a seasonal tropical forest in Panama as mentioned in this paper, where Sap flow was measured simultaneously at the top and at the base of each tree using constant energy input thermal probes inserted in the sapwood.
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Leaf photosynthetic traits scale with hydraulic conductivity and wood density in Panamanian forest canopy trees
Louis S. Santiago,Louis S. Santiago,Guillermo Goldstein,Frederick C. Meinzer,Jack B. Fisher,K. Machado,David R. Woodruff,Tappey H. Jones +7 more
TL;DR: The results indicate that understanding tree hydraulic architecture provides added insights to comparisons of leaf level measurements among species, and links photosynthetic allocation patterns with branch hydraulic processes, which exhibit considerable co-ordination with allocation to potential carbon gain.