Coordination of stem and leaf traits define different strategies to regulate water loss and tolerance ranges to aridity

R López, FJ Cano, NK Martin‐StPaul… - New …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Adaptation to drought involves complex interactions of traits that vary within and among
species. To date, few data are available to quantify within‐species variation in functional …

Adjustments and coordination of hydraulic, leaf and stem traits along a water availability gradient

T Rosas, M Mencuccini, J Barba, H Cochard… - New …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Trait variability in space and time allows plants to adjust to changing environmental
conditions. However, we know little about how this variability is distributed and coordinated …

How woody plants adjust above‐and below‐ground traits in response to sustained drought

L Rowland, JA Ramírez‐Valiente, IP Hartley… - New …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Future increases in drought severity and frequency are predicted to have substantial impacts
on plant function and survival. However, there is considerable uncertainty concerning what …

Accounting for trait variability and coordination in predictions of drought‐induced range shifts in woody plants

J Martínez‐Vilalta, R García‐Valdés, A Jump… - New …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Functional traits offer a promising avenue to improve predictions of species range shifts
under climate change, which will entail warmer and often drier conditions. Although the …

Spatial and temporal variation in plant hydraulic traits and their relevance for climate change impacts on vegetation

WRL Anderegg - New Phytologist, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Plant hydraulics mediate terrestrial woody plant productivity, influencing global water,
carbon, and biogeochemical cycles, as well as ecosystem vulnerability to drought and …

Tree hydraulic traits are coordinated and strongly linked to climate‐of‐origin across a rainfall gradient

X Li, CJ Blackman, B Choat, RA Duursma… - Plant, Cell & …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Plant hydraulic traits capture the impacts of drought stress on plant function, yet vegetation
models lack sufficient information regarding trait coordination and variation with climate‐of …

Why can't we predict traits from the environment?

LDL Anderegg - New Phytologist, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Plant functional traits are powerful ecological tools, but the relationships between plant traits
and climate (or environmental variables more broadly) are often remarkably weak. This …

Diversity in plant hydraulic traits explains seasonal and inter‐annual variations of vegetation dynamics in seasonally dry tropical forests

X Xu, D Medvigy, JS Powers, JM Becknell… - New …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
We assessed whether diversity in plant hydraulic traits can explain the observed diversity in
plant responses to water stress in seasonally dry tropical forests (SDTF s). The Ecosystem …

Climate and functional traits jointly mediate tree water‐use strategies

V Flo, J Martínez‐Vilalta, M Mencuccini… - New …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Tree water use is central to plant function and ecosystem fluxes. However, it is still unknown
how organ‐level water‐relations traits are coordinated to determine whole‐tree water‐use …

More than iso/anisohydry: hydroscapes integrate plant water use and drought tolerance traits in 10 eucalypt species from contrasting climates

X Li, CJ Blackman, JMR Peters, B Choat… - Functional …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The iso/anisohydric continuum describes how plants regulate leaf water potential and is
commonly used to classify species drought response strategies. However, drought response …