Review: Wind impacts on plant growth, mechanics and damage (original) (raw)

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• Berry, Peter ;
• Moulia, Bruno

Abstract

Mechanical stability is a major functional requirement of land plants. Wind loading on plants varies temporally on time scales from years to seconds. Plants change at scales from the cell to the whole plant to acclimate to the wind. The process of wind damage is very similar in all plants. Wind damage can have major economic and ecological impacts.

Publication:

Plant Science

Pub Date:

April 2016

DOI:

10.1016/j.plantsci.2016.01.006

Bibcode:

2016PlnSc.245...94G

Keywords:

• Wind;
• Dynamic loading;
• Plant mechanics;
• Plant adaptation;
• Plant acclimation;
• Thigmomorphogenesis;
• Wind damage;
• Ecological disturbance