Thermal Energy Exchange Model and Water Loss of a Barrel Cactus, Ferocactus acanthodes
Open Access
- 1 October 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Plant Physiology
- Vol. 60 (4), 609-616
- https://doi.org/10.1104/pp.60.4.609
Abstract
The influences of various diurnal stomatal opening patterns, spines, and ribs on the stem surface temperature and water economy of a CAM succulent, the barrel cactus Ferocactus acanthodes, were examined using an energy budget model. To incorporate energy exchanges by shortwave and longwave irradiation, latent heat, conduction, and convection as well as the heat storage in the massive stem, the plant was subdivided into over 100 internal and external regions in the model. This enabled the average surface temperature to be predicted within 1 C of the measured temperature for both winter and summer days.This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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