Stomatal responses to humidity, soil moisture and other factors that influence plant water
status are critical drivers of photosynthesis, productivity, water yield, ecohydrology and …

Plants often encounter unfavorable environmental conditions because of their sessile
lifestyle. These adverse factors greatly affect the geographic distribution of plants, as well as …

The design and function of leaf venation are important to plant performance, with key
implications for the distribution and productivity of ecosystems, and applications in …

Background Plants are often subjected to periods of soil and atmospheric water deficits
during their life cycle as well as, in many areas of the globe, to high soil salinity …

Water Relations of Plants and Soils, successor to the seminal 1983 book by Paul Kramer,
covers the entire field of water relations using current concepts and consistent terminology …

Experimental studies on CO2 assimilation of mesophytic C3 plants in relation to relative
water content (RWC) are discussed. Decreasing RWC slows the actual rate of …

Drought, the major limiting factor for plant growth and crop productivity, affecting several
physiological and biochemical processes, is expected to increase in duration, intensity, and …

Increasing concerns of global climatic change have stimulated research in all aspects of
carbon exchange. This has restored interest in leaf-photosynthetic models to predict and …

Gas exchange measurements were carried out on ash and oak trees in a forest plantation
during three whole growing seasons characterized by different water availability (2001 …

Ecology Letters (2011) 14: 301–312 Abstract Leaf mechanical properties strongly influence
leaf lifespan, plant–herbivore interactions, litter decomposition and nutrient cycling, but …