Stomatal acclimation to vapour pressure deficit doubles transpiration of small tree seedlings with warming.

@article{Marchin2016StomatalAT,
  title={Stomatal acclimation to vapour pressure deficit doubles transpiration of small tree seedlings with warming.},
  author={Ren{\'e}e M. Marchin and Alice Ann Broadhead and Laura Elizabeth Bostic and Robert R. Dunn and William A. Hoffmann},
  journal={Plant, cell \& environment},
  year={2016},
  volume={39 10},
  pages={
          2221-34
        }
}
Future climate change is expected to increase temperature (T) and atmospheric vapour pressure deficit (VPD) in many regions, but the effect of persistent warming on plant stomatal behaviour is highly uncertain. We investigated the effect of experimental warming of 1.9-5.1 °C and increased VPD of 0.5-1.3 kPa on transpiration and stomatal conductance (gs ) of tree seedlings in the temperate forest understory (Duke Forest, North Carolina, USA). We observed peaked responses of transpiration to VPD… 
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