Trees are the living foundations on which most terrestrial biodiversity is built. Central to the
success of trees are their woody bodies, which connect their elevated photosynthetic …

We review results from field experiments that simulate drought, an ecologically impactful
global change threat that is predicted to increase in magnitude, extent, duration and …

Despite great concern for drought‐driven forest mortality, the effects of frequent low‐intensity
droughts have been largely overlooked in the boreal forest because of their negligible …

Climate change is shifting the structure and function of global forests, underscoring the
critical need to predict which forests are most vulnerable to a hotter and drier future. We …

Large intraspecific functional trait variation strongly impacts many aspects of communities
and ecosystems, and is the medium upon which evolution works. Yet intraspecific trait …

Climate change and intensifying human activity are posing serious threats to marine
organisms. The fluctuating intertidal zone forms a miniature ecosystem of a rapidly changing …

The contrasting hydraulic traits observed among different plant life forms are shaped by
entangled environmental and evolutionary processes. However, we lack understanding of …

The capacity of trees to tolerate and survive increasing drought conditions in situ will depend
in part on their ability to acclimate (via phenotypic plasticity) key hydraulic and …

Leaf morphological and physiological traits control the carbon and water relations of mature
trees and are determinants of drought tolerance, but it is not well understood how they are …

Diverse meteorological and vegetation conditions at different elevations and years lead to
varied contributions of evapotranspiration (ET) to water yield in montane areas. However …