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Lawren Sack

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

L Sack, C Scoffoni - New phytologist, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
… (l) Cross-section of the lamina of cycad Cycas szechuanensis, with transfusion tracheids
and sunken stomata. (m) Cross-section of the lamina of cycad Zamia furfuracea, with multiple …

Leaf hydraulics

L Sack, NM Holbrook - Annu. Rev. Plant Biol., 2006 - annualreviews.org
… K l eaf reduction during water stress would protect the xylem by driving stomatal closure,
thus alleviating the tensions in the transpiration stream. Also, membrane channels important in …

CTFS‐Forest GEO: a worldwide network monitoring forests in an era of global change

…, GG Parker, RP Phillips, L Sack… - Global change …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Global change is impacting forests worldwide, threatening biodiversity and ecosystem
services including climate regulation. Understanding how forests respond is critical to forest …

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

…, HD Morgan, H Ter Steege, L Sack… - Australian Journal of …, 2016 - CSIRO Publishing
Plant functional traits are the features (morphological, physiological, phenological) that
represent ecological strategies and determine how plants respond to environmental factors, …

TRY–a global database of plant traits

…, A Rammig, S Reinsch, B Reu, L Sack… - Global change …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Plant traits – the morphological, anatomical, physiological, biochemical and phenological
characteristics of plants and their organs – determine how primary producers respond to …

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

MK Bartlett, C Scoffoni, L Sack - Ecology letters, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Ecology Letters (2012) 15: 393–405 Abstract Increasing drought is one of the most critical
challenges facing species and ecosystems worldwide, and improved theory and practices are …

[HTML][HTML] Cumulative haploinsufficiency and triplosensitivity drive aneuploidy patterns and shape the cancer genome

T Davoli, AW Xu, KE Mengwasser, LM Sack, JC Yoon… - Cell, 2013 - cell.com
Aneuploidy has been recognized as a hallmark of cancer for more than 100 years, yet no
general theory to explain the recurring patterns of aneuploidy in cancer has emerged. Here, we …

The 'hydrology'of leaves: co‐ordination of structure and function in temperate woody species

L Sack, PD Cowan, N Jaikumar… - Plant, Cell & …, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
The hydraulic conductance of the leaf lamina (K lamina ) substantially constrains whole‐plant
water transport, but little is known of its association with leaf structure and function. K …

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

…, T Klein, M Bartlett, L Sack… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
… The final “forest” is a combination of these model trees, with the percentage variance explained
based off of out of bag predictions. We compared predicted values vs. observed mortality …

Global climatic drivers of leaf size

…, MR Leishman, Ü Niinemets, PB Reich, L Sack… - Science, 2017 - science.org
Leaf size varies by over a 100,000-fold among species worldwide. Although 19th-century
plant geographers noted that the wet tropics harbor plants with exceptionally large leaves, the …