Klaus Winter
Staff Scientist
e-mail: winterk@si.edu
Link: Winter Lab
Link: ISIHighlyCited.com
Address: Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Box 0843-03092
Balboa, Ancon
Republic of Panama
or
Unit 0948
APO AA 34002-0948
Telephone: +507 212-8131
FAX: +507 212-8148
Publications
Publications by Klaus Winter in STRI Bibliography
Research Interests
- Ecology, physiology and biochemistry of succulent plants exhibiting crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM)
- Photoinhibition and photoprotection
- Carbon dioxide and water vapor exchange of tropical canopy trees, epiphytes, gap and understory plants
- Responses of tropical plants to elevated atmospheric CO2 concentrations
Current Research
- CO2 fluxes and carbon sequestration of whole plants
- Functional significance and origin of crassulacean acid metabolism in Panamanian Clusia
Education and Degrees
Dr.rer.nat, Darmstadt, 1975
Habil., Würzburg, 1983
Selected Bibliography
Winter K, Garcia M, Holtum JAM (2008) On the nature of facultative and constitutive. CAM: environmental and developmental control of CAM expression during early growth of Clusia, Kalanchoe, and Opuntia. Journal of Experimental Botany 59: 1829-1840
Winter K, Holtum JAM (2007) Environment or development? Lifetime net CO2 exchange and control of the expression of crassulacean acid metabolism in Mesembryanthemum crystallinum. Plant Physiology 143: 98-107
Crayn DM, Winter K, Smith JAC (2004) Multiple origins of crassulacean acid metabolism and the epiphylic habit in the Neotropical family Bromeliaceae. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 101: 3703-3708
Winter K, Holtum JAM (2002) How closely do the δ13C values of CAM plants reflect the proportion of CO2 fixed during day and night? Plant Physiology 129: 1843-1851
Winter K, Garcia M, Gottsberger R, Popp M (2001) Marked growth response of communities of two tropical tree species to elevated CO2 when soil nutrient limitation is removed. Flora 196: 47-58
Krause GH, Schmude C, Garden H, Koroleva OY, Winter K (1999) Effects of solar ultraviolet radiation on the potential efficiency of photosystem II in leaves of tropical plants. Plant Physiology 121: 1349-1358
Skillman JB, Winter K (1997) High photosynthetic capacity in a shade-tolerant crassulacean acid metabolism plant. Implications for sunfleck use, nonphotochemical energy dissipation, and susceptibility to photoinhibition. Plant Physiology 113: 441-450
Winter K, Smith JAC (eds) (1996) Crassulacean acid metabolism. Biochemistry, ecophysiology and evolution. Ecological Studies Vol 114. Springer, Berlin Heidelberg