The giant columnar cactus Pachycereus pringlei adaptively modifies its stem shape from the dry tropics into the arid mid-latitude deserts
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jaridenv.2017.07.004
Abstract: Abstract Because of the lack of leaves, the distributions of columnar cacti are limited by their capacity to trade off their photosynthetic chlorenchyma and their non-photosynthetic storage parenchyma. For species with wide latitudinal ranges, variations… read more here.
Keywords: latitude deserts; mid latitude; tropics arid; pachycereus pringlei ... See more keywords