Vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi can affect the water balance of both amply watered
and droughted host plants. This review summarizes these effects and possible causal …

The mechanism, or hypothesis, of how a plant might be adapted to drought should strongly
influence experimental design. For instance, an experiment testing for water conservation …

Ecology Letters (2012) 15: 393–405 Abstract Increasing drought is one of the most critical
challenges facing species and ecosystems worldwide, and improved theory and practices …

The hydraulic conductance of the leaf lamina (Klamina) substantially constrains whole‐plant
water transport, but little is known of its association with leaf structure and function. Klamina …

The question as to what triggers stomatal closure during leaf desiccation remains
controversial. This paper examines characteristics of the vascular and photosynthetic …

Vegetation, seed rain, seed germination, microclimate, and soil physical and chemical
parameters were measured in a recently abandoned pasture and adjacent primary rain …

Under drought conditions, arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi alter water relationships of
plants and improve their resistance to drought. In a factorial greenhouse experiment, we …

Drought stress is an increasing concern because of climate change and increasing
demands on water for agriculture. There are still many unknowns about how plants sense …

We studied 15 riparian and upland Sonoran desert species to evaluate how the limitation of
xylem pressure (Ψx) by cavitation corresponded with plant distribution along a moisture …

This study examined the linkage between xylem vulnerability, stomatal response to leaf
water potential (ΨL), and loss of leaf turgor in eight species of seasonally dry tropical forest …