Global analysis of plasticity in turgor loss point, a key drought tolerance trait.
- M. Bartlett, Y. Zhang, L. Sack
- Environmental ScienceEcology Letters
- 1 December 2014
Despite the wide prevalence of plasticity, πtlp measured in one season can reliably characterise most species' constitutive drought tolerances and distributions relative to water supply.
A Framework for Identifying Plant Species to Be Used as ‘Ecological Engineers’ for Fixing Soil on Unstable Slopes
- Murielle Ghestem, K. Cao, A. Stokes
- Environmental SciencePLoS ONE
- 8 August 2014
No one species possessed a suite of highly desirable traits, therefore mixtures of species should be used on vulnerable slopes, therefore a conceptual model describing how to position plants on an unstable site is proposed, based on root system traits.
Drought tolerance as a driver of tropical forest assembly: resolving spatial signatures for multiple processes.
- M. Bartlett, Y. Zhang, L. Sack
- Environmental ScienceEcology
- 1 February 2016
The ability of drought-tolerance traits, other physiological traits, and commonly measured functional traits to predict the spatial patterns expected from the assembly processes of habitat associations, niche-overlap-based competition, and hierarchical competition was compared.
Fagus dominance in Chinese montane forests: natural regeneration of Fagus lucida and Fagus hayatae var. pashanica.
- K. Cao
- Environmental Science
- 1995
Plant ecology of tropical and subtropical karst ecosystems
- N. Geekiyanage, U. Goodale, K. Cao, K. Kitajima
- Environmental ScienceBiotropica
- 20 August 2019
Substantial areas of tropical forests, including those within nine tropical biodiversity hotspots, contain karst landscapes that have developed on soluble carbonate rocks. Here, we review how the…
Factors controlling bark decomposition and its role in wood decomposition in five tropical tree species
- Gbadamassi G. O. Dossa, E. Paudel, K. Cao, D. Schaefer, R. Harrison
- Environmental ScienceScientific Reports
- 9 August 2016
Investigation of factors affecting bark decomposition and its role in wood decomposition for five tree species in a secondary seasonal tropical rain forest in SW China found responses to bark removal were species dependent.
Temporal Changes of Ecosystem Carbon Stocks in Rubber Plantations in Xishuangbanna, Southwest China
- Ya-li Sun, Youxin Ma, Cencen Mei
- Environmental Science
- 1 August 2017
Trochodendron aralioides, the first chromosome-level draft genome in Trochodendrales and a valuable resource for basal eudicot research
- J. S. Strijk, D. Hinsinger, Fengqiao Zhang, K. Cao
- BiologybioRxiv
- 26 May 2019
This genome is the first chromosome-scale genome assembled in the order Trochodendrales and represents the largest genome assembled to date in the basal eudicot grade, as well as the closest order relative to the core-eudicots, as the position of Buxales remains unresolved.
[Acclimation of foliar photosynthetic apparatus of three tropical woody species to growth irradiance].
- Z. Cai, K. Cao, Yulong Feng, Zhili Feng
- Environmental ScienceYing yong sheng tai xue bao = The journal of…
- 1 April 2003
It could be concluded that besides the increase in xanthophyll cycle-dependent energy dissipation, the enhancement of leaf antioxidants was also a protective pathway against high light intensity.
Hydraulic traits are more diverse in flowers than in leaves.
- A. Roddy, Guo-Feng Jiang, K. Cao, K. Simonin, C. Brodersen
- Biology, MedicineNew Phytologist
- 1 July 2019
Principal component analysis revealed that flowers occupied a different region of multivariate trait space than leaves and that hydraulic traits are more diverse in flowers than in leaves, which has important implications for both the costs of reproduction and the biomechanical performance of flowers, particularly during drought.
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