Increasing day-length induces spring flushing of tropical dry forest trees in the absence of rain

• Main Authors: Rivera G., Elliott S., Caldas L.S., Nicolossi G., Coradin V.T., Borchert R.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Online Access: http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-0036739741&partnerID=40&md5=fff62086f034d12829633d5574bd2474; http://cmuir.cmu.ac.th/handle/6653943832/5486
• Institution: Chiang Mai University

In many conspecific trees of >50 species highly synchronous bud break with low inter-annual variation was observed during the late dry season, around the spring equinox, in semideciduous tropical forests of Argentina, Costa Rica, Java and Thailand and in tropical savannas of Central Brazil. Bud b...