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A methodology to derive global maps of leaf traits using remote sensing and climate data

scientific article published in 2018

A stomatal safety-efficiency trade-off constrains responses to leaf dehydration

scientific article published on 30 July 2019

A unique web resource for physiology, ecology and the environmental sciences:PrometheusWiki

article published in 2010

ABA accumulation in dehydrating leaves is associated with decline in cell volume not turgor pressure

scientific article published on 23 October 2017

Adjustment of structure and function of Hawaiian Metrosideros polymorpha at high vs. low precipitation

scientific article published in 2007

Allometries of cell and tissue anatomy and photosynthetic rate across leaves of C<sub>3</sub> and C<sub>4</sub> grasses

scientific article published in 2023

Allometry of cells and tissues within leaves

scientific article

An extensive suite of functional traits distinguishes Hawaiian wet and dry forests and enables prediction of species vital rates

scientific article published in 2018

Anatomical constraints to nonstomatal diffusion conductance and photosynthesis in lycophytes and bryophytes

scientific article published on 03 February 2019

Are fern stomatal responses to different stimuli coordinated? Testing responses to light, vapor pressure deficit, and CO2 for diverse species grown under contrasting irradiances

scientific article published on 31 July 2014

Are leaves 'freewheelin'? Testing for a wheeler-type effect in leaf xylem hydraulic decline.

scientific article

Atmospheric and soil drought reduce nocturnal conductance in live oaks

scientific article

Bacterial Leaf Nodule Symbiosis in Ardisia (Myrsinaceae): Does it Contribute to Seedling Growth Capacity?

scientific article published in 2005

Bundle sheath lignification mediates the linkage of leaf hydraulics and venation

scientific article published on 18 October 2017

CTFS-ForestGEO: a worldwide network monitoring forests in an era of global change.

scientific article

Climate sensitive size-dependent survival in tropical trees

scientific article published on 13 August 2018

Combined impacts of irradiance and dehydration on leaf hydraulic conductance: insights into vulnerability and stomatal control

scientific article published on 14 December 2011

Comparative water use of native and invasive plants at multiple scales: a global meta-analysis

scientific article

Contrasting Structure and Function of Pubescent and Glabrous Varieties of Hawaiian Metrosideros polymorpha (Myrtaceae) at High Elevation

Coordinated decline of leaf hydraulic and stomatal conductances under drought is not linked to leaf xylem embolism for different grapevine cultivars

scientific article published on 11 December 2020

Coordination of stem and leaf hydraulic conductance in southern California shrubs: a test of the hydraulic segmentation hypothesis

scientific article published on 23 May 2014

Corrigendum to: New handbook for standardised measurement of plant functional traits worldwide

article

Covariation between leaf hydraulics and biomechanics is driven by leaf density in Mediterranean shrubs

scientific article published on 15 December 2018

Decline of leaf hydraulic conductance with dehydration: relationship to leaf size and venation architecture

scientific article (publication date: June 2011)

Decoding leaf hydraulics with a spatially explicit model: principles of venation architecture and implications for its evolution

scientific article published in April 2010

Density-dependent seedling mortality varies with light availability and species abundance in wet and dry Hawaiian forests

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Design of paradise

scientific article published in Nature

Detecting Forest Response to Droughts with Global Observations of Vegetation Water Content

scientific article

Developmental and biophysical determinants of grass leaf size worldwide

scientific article

Developmentally based scaling of leaf venation architecture explains global ecological patterns.

scientific article

Differential allocation to photosynthetic and non-photosynthetic nitrogen fractions among native and invasive species ⬇️

scientific article

Differentiation of leaf water flux and drought tolerance traits in hemiepiphytic and non-hemiepiphytic Ficus tree species

scientific article published in 2010

Disentangling the functional trait correlates of spatial aggregation in tropical forest trees

scientific article published on 21 February 2019

Diversity of hydraulic traits in nine Cordia species growing in tropical forests with contrasting precipitation

scientific article

Do leaf nitrogen resorption dynamics align with the slow‐fast continuum? A test at the intraspecific level

scientific article published on 03 March 2022

Does climate directly influence NPP globally?

scientific article

Does global stoichiometric theory apply to bryophytes? Tests across an elevation × soil age ecosystem matrix on Mauna Loa, Hawaii

scientific article published on 07 October 2010

Drivers of morphological diversity and distribution in the Hawaiian fern flora: trait associations with size, growth form, and environment

scientific article

Drought tolerance as a driver of tropical forest assembly: resolving spatial signatures for multiple processes

scientific article

Drought tolerance as predicted by leaf water potential at turgor loss point varies strongly across species within an Amazonian forest

article

Dry‐season decline in tree sapflux is correlated with leaf turgor loss point in a tropical rainforest

scientific article published on 24 July 2018

Dynamics of leaf hydraulic conductance with water status: quantification and analysis of species differences under steady state

scientific article

Ecological differentiation in xylem cavitation resistance is associated with stem and leaf structural traits

scientific article

Ecological variation in leaf biomechanics and its scaling with tissue structure across three mediterranean‐climate plant communities

scientific article published on 01 March 2013

Ecology of hemiepiphytism in fig species is based on evolutionary correlation of hydraulics and carbon economy

scientific article published on November 2011

Ecosystem Traits Linking Functional Traits to Macroecology

scientific article published on 04 December 2018

Embracing 3D Complexity in Leaf Carbon-Water Exchange

scientific article published on 09 October 2018

Evolution of C4 plants: a new hypothesis for an interaction of CO2 and water relations mediated by plant hydraulics

scientific article (publication date: 19 February 2012)

Evolution of leaf form correlates with tropical-temperate transitions in Viburnum (Adoxaceae)

scientific article (publication date: 7 October 2012)

Evolution of leaf structure and drought tolerance in species of Californian Ceanothus

scientific article

Extending the generality of leaf economic design principles in the cycads, an ancient lineage

scientific article published on 26 January 2015

Forest structure in low-diversity tropical forests: a study of Hawaiian wet and dry forests ⬇️

scientific article

ForestGEO: Understanding forest diversity and dynamics through a global observatory network

scientific article

Fossil leaf economics quantified: calibration, Eocene case study, and implications

article published in 2007

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Functional traits indicate faster resource acquisition for alien herbs than native shrubs in an urban Mediterranean shrubland

scientific article

Genetic variation in leaf pigment, optical and photosynthetic function among diverse phenotypes of Metrosideros polymorpha grown in a common garden

scientific article published on 24 November 2006

Global Root Traits (GRooT) Database

scientific article published on 19 May 2020

Global allocation rules for patterns of biomass partitioning

scientific article published in June 2002

Global analysis of plasticity in turgor loss point, a key drought tolerance trait.

scientific article

Global climatic drivers of leaf size.

scientific article published on September 2017

Global importance of large-diameter trees

scientific article published in 2018

Global root traits (GRooT) database

scientific article

Harvesting water from unsaturated atmospheres: deliquescence of salt secreted onto leaf surfaces drives reverse sap flow in a dominant arid climate mangrove, Avicennia marina

scientific article

Hawaiian native forest conserves water relative to timber plantation: species and stand traits influence water use.

scientific article published on September 2009

How Does Leaf Anatomy Influence Water Transport outside the Xylem?

scientific article published on 17 June 2015

How are leaves plumbed inside a branch? Differences in leaf-to-leaf hydraulic sectoriality among six temperate tree species

scientific article published on 27 June 2005

How do leaf veins influence the worldwide leaf economic spectrum? Review and synthesis

scientific article

How does biomass distribution change with size and differ among species? An analysis for 1200 plant species from five continents

scientific article published on 22 July 2015

How does moss photosynthesis relate to leaf and canopy structure? Trait relationships for 10 Hawaiian species of contrasting light habitats

scientific article published on 23 October 2009

How strong is intracanopy leaf plasticity in temperate deciduous trees?

scientific article published on June 2006

Human impacts on leaf economics in heterogeneous landscapes: the effect of harvesting non-timber forest products from African mahogany across habitats and climates

scientific article published in 2011

Hydraulic analysis of water flow through leaves of sugar maple and red oak.

scientific article published on 2 April 2004

Hydraulic basis for the evolution of photosynthetic productivity

scientific article published on 27 May 2016

Hydraulic conductance of Acacia phyllodes (foliage) is driven by primary nerve (vein) conductance and density

scientific article

Hydraulically‐vulnerable trees survive on deep‐water access during droughts in a tropical forest

scientific article

Hydraulics and life history of tropical dry forest tree species: coordination of species' drought and shade tolerance

scientific article

Impact of light quality on leaf and shoot hydraulic properties: a case study in silver birch (Betula pendula).

scientific article published on 21 April 2011

Is hemiepiphytism an adaptation to high irradiance? Testing seedling responses to light levels and drought in hemiepiphytic and non-hemiepiphytic Ficus

scientific article published on 10 October 2012

Leaf Hydraulics and Its Implications in Plant Structure and Function

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Leaf Trait Diversification and Design in Seven Rare Taxa of the Hawaiian Plantago Radiation

scientific article published in 2009

Leaf and stem physiological responses to summer and winter extremes of woody species across temperate ecosystems

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Leaf drought tolerance cannot be inferred from classic leaf traits in a tropical rainforest

scientific article published on 12 November 2019

Leaf hydraulic architecture correlates with regeneration irradiance in tropical rainforest trees

scientific article

Leaf hydraulic conductance varies with vein anatomy across Arabidopsis thaliana wild-type and leaf vein mutants

scientific article published on 5 June 2015

Leaf hydraulics

scientific article

Leaf life span and the leaf economic spectrum in the context of whole plant architecture

scientific article published on 20 February 2014

Leaf mass per area is independent of vein length per area: avoiding pitfalls when modelling phenotypic integration (reply to Blonder et al. 2014).

scientific article

Leaf mesophyll conductance and leaf hydraulic conductance: an introduction to their measurement and coordination

scientific article published on October 2013

Leaf palmate venation and vascular redundancy confer tolerance of hydraulic disruption

scholarly article

Leaf rehydration capacity: Associations with other indices of drought tolerance and environment

scientific article published on 12 September 2018

Leaf shrinkage with dehydration: coordination with hydraulic vulnerability and drought tolerance

scientific article

Leaf structural diversity is related to hydraulic capacity in tropical rain forest trees

scientific article

Leaf trait network architecture shifts with species‐richness and climate across forests at continental scale

scientific article published on 09 April 2022

Leaf turgor loss point shapes local and regional distributions of evergreen but not deciduous tropical trees

scientific article

Leaf vein length per unit area is not intrinsically dependent on image magnification: avoiding measurement artifacts for accuracy and precision

scientific article

Leaf vein xylem conduit diameter influences susceptibility to embolism and hydraulic decline

scientific article

Leaf venation: structure, function, development, evolution, ecology and applications in the past, present and future

scientific article published on 18 April 2013

Leaf water potential measurements using the pressure chamber: Synthetic testing of assumptions towards best practices for precision and accuracy

scientific article published in 2022

Leaf water storage increases with salinity and aridity in the mangrove Avicennia marina: integration of leaf structure, osmotic adjustment and access to multiple water sources

scientific article

Light-induced plasticity in leaf hydraulics, venation, anatomy, and gas exchange in ecologically diverse Hawaiian lobeliads

scientific article published on 8 April 2015

Making the best of the worst of times: traits underlying combined shade and drought tolerance of Ruscus aculeatus and Ruscus microglossum (Asparagaceae)

scientific article published on 01 February 2013

Mapping local and global variability in plant trait distributions

scientific article published in December 2017

Measurement of leaf hydraulic conductance and stomatal conductance and their responses to irradiance and dehydration using the Evaporative Flux Method (EFM).

scientific article published on 31 December 2012

Measurements of stem xylem hydraulic conductivity in the laboratory and field

scientific article published in 2012

Meta-analysis reveals that hydraulic traits explain cross-species patterns of drought-induced tree mortality across the globe

scientific article

Multi-Stemmed Habit in Trees Contributes Climate Resilience in Tropical Dry Forest

scientific article published on 02 June 2022

Native trees show conservative water use relative to invasive trees: results from a removal experiment in a Hawaiian wet forest ⬇️

scientific article published on 17 May 2014

New handbook for standardised measurement of plant functional traits worldwide

article

OpenNahele: the open Hawaiian forest plot database

scientific article published on 27 September 2018

Optimal plant water economy.

scientific article published on 19 September 2016

Osmotic and hydraulic adjustment of mangrove saplings to extreme salinity.

scientific article published on 2 September 2016

Outside-Xylem Vulnerability, Not Xylem Embolism, Controls Leaf Hydraulic Decline during Dehydration.

scientific article published on 3 January 2017

Pitfalls and Possibilities in the Analysis of Biomass Allocation Patterns in Plants ⬇️

scientific article published on December 5, 2012

Plant Trait Networks: Improved Resolution of the Dimensionality of Adaptation

scientific article published on 25 June 2020

Plant diversity increases with the strength of negative density dependence at the global scale

scientific article

Plant hydraulics as a central hub integrating plant and ecosystem function: meeting report for 'Emerging Frontiers in Plant Hydraulics' (Washington, DC, May 2015).

scientific article

Plant hydraulics: new discoveries in the pipeline

scientific article published in January 2008

Predicting habitat affinities of plant species using commonly measured functional traits

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Prediction of leaf water potential and relative water content using terahertz radiation spectroscopy

scientific article published on 17 April 2020

Rapid determination of comparative drought tolerance traits: using an osmometer to predict turgor loss point

scientific article published in 2012

Reconstructing leaf area from fragments: testing three methods using a fossil paleogene species

scientific article published on 14 December 2020

Regional forcing explains local species diversity and turnover on tropical islands

article published in 2018

Relating leaf photosynthetic rate to whole-plant growth: drought and shade effects on seedlings of fourQuercusspecies

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Relationships between specific leaf area and leaf composition in succulent and non-succulent species of contrasting semi-desert communities in south-eastern Spain

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Repeated range expansion and niche shift in a volcanic hotspot archipelago: Radiation of C Hawaiian subgenus (Euphorbiaceae)

scientific article published in 2018

Resolving Australian analogs for an Eocene Patagonian paleorainforest using leaf size and floristics.

scientific article

Response to Comment on "Plant diversity increases with the strength of negative density dependence at the global scale"

scientific article published in Science

Response to Comment on "Plant diversity increases with the strength of negative density dependence at the global scale"

scientific article published on 01 May 2018

Response to comment on Coomes et al. ‘Scaling of xylem vessels and veins within the leaves of oak species’.

scientific article published on 15 April 2009

Responses of temperate woody seedlings to shade and drought: do trade-offs limit potential niche differentiation?

scientific article published on 09 September 2004

Scaling of Frond Form in Hawaiian Tree FernCibotium glaucum: Compliance with Global Trends and Application for Field Estimation

article published in 2008

Scaling of xylem vessels and veins within the leaves of oak species

scientific article published on June 2008

Seedling recruitment factors in low-diversity Hawaiian wet forest: towards global comparisons among tropical forests

scientific article

Seedling response to water stress in valley oak (Quercus lobata) is shaped by different gene networks across populations

scientific article published on 19 November 2019

Shifting access to pools of shoot water sustains gas exchange and increases stem hydraulic safety during seasonal atmospheric drought

scientific article published on 11 May 2021

Shifts in bryophyte carbon isotope ratio across an elevation × soil age matrix on Mauna Loa, Hawaii: do bryophytes behave like vascular plants?

scientific article

Shoot surface water uptake enables leaf hydraulic recovery in Avicennia marina

scientific article published on 17 September 2019

Sources of Error in Mammalian Genetic Screens.

scientific article

Soybean leaf hydraulic conductance does not acclimate to growth at elevated [CO2] or temperature in growth chambers or in the field

scientific article

Speed versus endurance tradeoff in plants: Leaves with higher photosynthetic rates show stronger seasonal declines.

scientific article published on 10 February 2017

Stronger seasonal adjustment in leaf turgor loss point in lianas than trees in an Amazonian forest

scientific article

Structural determinants of leaf light-harvesting capacity and photosynthetic potentials

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TRY - a global database of plant traits

scientific article (publication date: 21 June 2011)

TRY plant trait database - enhanced coverage and open access

scientific article published on 31 December 2019

Testing for ion-mediated enhancement of the hydraulic conductance of the leaf xylem in diverse angiosperms

The Anatomical Determinants of Leaf Hydraulic Function

article

The Cohesion-Tension Theory

scientific article published in 2004

The Developmental Basis of Stomatal Density and Flux

scientific article

The Sites of Evaporation within Leaves

scientific article

The anatomical and compositional basis of leaf mass per area

scientific article

The causes and consequences of leaf hydraulic decline with dehydration

scientific article published in July 2017

The causes of leaf hydraulic vulnerability and its influence on gas exchange in Arabidopsis thaliana

scientific article published on 26 October 2018

The combined impacts of deep shade and drought on the growth and biomass allocation of shade-tolerant woody seedlings

scientific article

The correlations and sequence of plant stomatal, hydraulic, and wilting responses to drought

scientific article

The dependence of leaf hydraulic conductance on irradiance during HPFM measurements: any role for stomatal response?

scientific article published on 6 December 2004

The determinants of leaf turgor loss point and prediction of drought tolerance of species and biomes: a global meta-analysis

scientific article

The dynamic multi‐functionality of leaf water transport outside the xylem

scientific article published in 2023

The global spectrum of plant form and function: enhanced species-level trait dataset

scientific article published on 7 December 2022

The handbook for standardized field and laboratory measurements in terrestrial climate change experiments and observational studies (ClimEx)

scientific article

The heterogeneity and spatial patterning of structure and physiology across the leaf surface in giant leaves of Alocasia macrorrhiza

scientific article

The humidity inside leaves and why you should care: implications of unsaturation of leaf intercellular airspaces

scientific article published on 06 May 2019

The hydraulic conductance of the angiosperm leaf lamina: a comparison of three measurement methods

scientific article

The major veins of mesomorphic leaves revisited: tests for conductive overload in Acer saccharum (Aceraceae) and Quercus rubra (Fagaceae).

scientific article published on January 2003

The rapid light response of leaf hydraulic conductance: new evidence from two experimental methods

article

The role of bundle sheath extensions and life form in stomatal responses to leaf water status.

scientific article published in April 2011

Thresholds for leaf damage due to dehydration: declines of hydraulic function, stomatal conductance and cellular integrity precede those for photochemistry

scientific article published on 11 April 2019

Trade-offs in seedling growth and survival within and across tropical forest microhabitats

scientific article

Trait convergence and diversification arising from a complex evolutionary history in Hawaiian species of Scaevola

scientific article published on 3 May 2016

Trait multi-functionality in plant stress response

scientific article published on 11 December 2019

Tree Canopies Reflect Mycorrhizal Composition

scientific article published on 20 May 2021

Tree height and leaf drought tolerance traits shape growth responses across droughts in a temperate broadleaf forest

scientific article published on 13 October 2020

Turning over a new 'leaf': multiple functional significances of leaves versus phyllodes in Hawaiian Acacia koa.

scientific article published on December 2010

Variation in leaf chlorophyll concentration from tropical to cold-temperate forests: Association with gross primary productivity

scientific article published on 06 November 2017

Variation of stomatal traits from cold temperate to tropical forests and association with water use efficiency

scientific article published on 18 August 2017

Viewing leaf structure and evolution from a hydraulic perspective

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What is conservation physiology? Perspectives on an increasingly integrated and essential science(†) ⬇️

scientific article

When facilitation meets clonal integration in forest canopies

scientific article published on 25 October 2019

Which is a better predictor of plant traits: temperature or precipitation?

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Why are leaves hydraulically vulnerable?

scientific article

Why is C4 photosynthesis so rare in trees?

scientific article published on 15 May 2020

Xylem traits mediate a trade-off between resistance to freeze-thaw-induced embolism and photosynthetic capacity in overwintering evergreens.

scientific article published on 31 May 2011

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