Severe droughts have caused widespread tree mortality across many forest biomes with
profound effects on the function of ecosystems and carbon balance. Climate change is …

Water moves through plants under tension and in a thermodynamically metastable state,
leaving the nonliving vessels that transport this water vulnerable to blockage by gas embolisms…

Maintenance of long distance water transport in xylem is essential to plant health and productivity.
Both biotic and abiotic environmental conditions lead to embolism formation within the …

Long-distance water transport through plant xylem is vulnerable to hydraulic dysfunction
during periods of increased tension on the xylem sap, often coinciding with drought. While the …

Leaf hydraulic supply is crucial to maintaining open stomata for CO 2 capture and plant
growth. During drought-induced dehydration, the leaf hydraulic conductance (K leaf ) declines, …

… Brodersen , … Brodersen … Micro-CT is a noninvasive technique that allows
researchers to directly visualize xylem conduits at high resolution and determine the degree …

Water is the most limiting abiotic (non‑living) factor to plant growth and productivity, and a
principal determinant of vegetation distributions worldwide. Since antiquity, humans have …

Leaf anatomy plays a functional role in propagating light through the leaf; palisade mesophyll
has been shown to facilitate the channelling of collimated light deeper into the spongy …

Global warming is expected to dramatically accelerate forest mortality as temperature and
drought intensity increase. Predicting the magnitude of this impact urgently requires an …

The formation of emboli in xylem conduits can dramatically reduce hydraulic capacity and
represents one of the principal mechanisms of drought‐induced mortality in woody plants. …