… This study aims to evaluate the variations of soil organic matter and plant leaf cuticular
waxes along an altitude gradient at two mountains in the east side of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. …

… Degraded waxes have been highly correlated to leaf loss, … closure) in leaves subjected to
humidity changes could … and the leaf surface represent the steepest gradient of water potential …

… values in adjacent lake sediments and are compared to the leaf wax n-alkane δD values. …
of terrestrial leaf water deuterium enrichment, which in turn is a measure of humidity and …

… water under different environmental conditions (relative humidity; physical properties of …
model that allows ϵ to vary spatially along with gradients in vegetation composition (ϵ veg ). The …

… , samples were dehydrated in an ethanol gradient (70, 80, 90 … Blocks of wax were fixed on
blocks of wood to facilitate … driven by pronounced environmental gradients existing in forest …

… leaf waxes (δ 2 H Wax values) are increasingly used to reconstruct past hydroclimate. Here,
we add δ 2 H Wax … leaf waxes n‐C 29 ‐alkane (R 2 = 0.74, n = 665) and n‐C 28 ‐acid (R 2 …

… the humidity gradient spans 96.1 %–99.8 %. Given that the variation in the latter is so small,
the humidity gradient … plant wax in leaves and soils along an environmental gradient in the …

… After microscopic assessment of the leaf surfaces and … The cuticular cup, which also increases
leaf internal humidity, … The model did not take into account temperature gradients which …

… Here we investigate δ 2 H values from leaf wax n-alkanes of vascular tundra plants in the …
Using previously measured leaf and stem waters to help constrain potential drivers of leaf wax …

… leaf types allowed us to determine if leaf wax n-alkanes are synthesized de novo only in the
early developmental stages of a leaf or if leaf wax … leaf water and when relative humidity was …