Why are leaves hydraulically vulnerable?
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California Los Angeles, 621 Charles E. Young Drive South, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA lawrensack@ucla.edu.
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Sack
IA Watson Grains Research Centre, Plant Breeding Institute, Faculty of Agriculture and Environment, The University of Sydney, Narrabri NSW 2390, Australia.
Thomas N
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Buckley
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California Los Angeles, 621 Charles E. Young Drive South, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA.
Christine
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Scoffoni
D057486:Carbon Cycle; D018515:Plant Leaves / Q000502:physiology*; D018526:Plant Transpiration / Q000502:physiology*; D014867:Water / Q000378:metabolism*; D058438:Water Cycle
D014867:Water
Drought; leaf extra-vascular conductance; leaf hydraulic conductance; leaf vein conductance; leaf vulnerability; shrinkage; vulnerability segmentation.