Research on the degree to which carbon (C) availability limits growth in trees, as well as
recent trends in climate change and concurrent increases in drought-related tree mortality …

Angiosperm and coniferous tree species utilize a continuum of hydraulic strategies.
Hydraulic safety margins (defined as differences between naturally occurring xylem …

Climate change is expected to exacerbate drought for many plants, making drought
tolerance a key driver of species and ecosystem responses. Plant drought tolerance is …

Plant function requires effective mechanisms to regulate water transport at a variety of
scales. Here, we develop a new theoretical framework describing plant responses to drying …

Attempts to understand mechanisms underlying plant mortality during drought have led to
the emergence of a hydraulic framework describing distinct hydraulic strategies among …

Water transport from soils to the atmosphere is critical for plant growth and survival.
However, we have a limited understanding about many portions of the whole-tree hydraulic …

Urban habitats are characterized by impervious surfaces, which increase temperatures and
reduce water availability to plants. The effects of these conditions on herbivorous insects are …

C4 photosynthesis has evolved more than 60 times as a carbon-concentrating mechanism
to augment the ancestral C3 photosynthetic pathway. The rate and the efficiency of …

Leaf hydraulic conductance (Kleaf) and vulnerability constrain plant productivity, but no clear
trade-off between these fundamental functional traits has emerged in previous studies. We …

Coordination of water movement among plant organs is important for understanding plant
water use strategies. The hydraulic segmentation hypothesis (HSH) proposes that hydraulic …