Xylem vessel‐diameter–shoot‐length scaling: ecological significance of porosity types and other traits

Spandrels and trait delimitation: No such thing as “architectural constraint”

(2019) Mark E. Olson   EVOLUTION & DEVELOPMENT

Hydraulic traits are coordinated with maximum plant height at the global scale

(2019) Hui Liu et al.   Science Advances

Wood structure and function change with maturity: Age of the vascular cambium is associated with xylem changes in current year growth

(2019) F. Daniela Rodriguez-Zaccaro et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

Similar hydraulic efficiency and safety across vesselless angiosperms and vessel-bearing species with scalariform perforation plates

(2019) Santiago Trueba et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Large volume vessels are vulnerable to water-stress-induced embolism in stems of poplar

(2019) Anna L. Jacobsen et al.   IAWA JOURNAL

Axial variation of xylem conduits in the Earth’s tallest trees

(2019) Cameron B. Williams et al.   TREES-STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION

Ramification has little impact on shoot hydraulic efficiency in the sexually dimorphic genus Leucadendron (Proteaceae)

(2019) Adam B. Roddy et al.   PeerJ

A dynamic yet vulnerable pipeline: Integration and coordination of hydraulic traits across whole plants

(2019) Katherine A. McCulloh et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

Drought-induced anatomical modifications of barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) leaves: An allometric perspective

(2019) Tomasz P. Wyka et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL AND EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

To furcate or not to furcate: the dance between vessel number and diameter in leaves

(2019) Julieta A Rosell et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Stem length, not climate, controls vessel diameter in two trees species across a sharp precipitation gradient

(2019) Alex Fajardo et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Do ring-porous oaks prioritize earlywood vessel efficiency over safety? Environmental effects on vessel diameter and tyloses formation

(2018) Gonzalo Pérez-de-Lis et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

Polar auxin transport is implicated in vessel differentiation and spatial patterning during secondary growth in Populus

(2018) Dan Johnson et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Traits and trade-offs in whole-tree hydraulic architecture along the vertical axis of Eucalyptus grandis

(2018) Sebastian Pfautsch et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Carbon limitation, stem growth rate and the biomechanical cause of Corner’s rules

(2018) Mark E Olson et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Functional biogeography of angiosperms: life at the extremes

(2018) Amy E. Zanne et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Plant height and hydraulic vulnerability to drought and cold

(2018) Mark E. Olson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Going with the flow: Structural determinants of vascular tissue transport efficiency and safety

(2018) Anna L. Jacobsen et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

OUP accepted manuscript

(2018)   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

Vestured pits and scalariform perforation plate morphology modify the relationships between angiosperm vessel diameter, climate and maximum plant height

(2018) Juliana S. Medeiros et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Testing the hypothesis that biological modularity is shaped by adaptation: Xylem in the Bursera simaruba clade of tropical trees

(2017) Claudia Gabriela Montes-Cartas et al.   EVOLUTION & DEVELOPMENT

Exploring the bark thickness-stem diameter relationship: clues from lianas, successive cambia, monocots and gymnosperms

(2017) Julieta A. Rosell et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

In vivo visualization of the final stages of xylem vessel refilling in grapevine (Vitis vinifera ) stems

(2017) Craig R. Brodersen et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Vessel diameter is related to amount and spatial arrangement of axial parenchyma in woody angiosperms

(2017) Hugh Morris et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

Scaling of Xylem Vessel Diameter with Plant Size: Causes, Predictions, and Outstanding Questions

(2017) Julieta A. Rosell et al.   Current Forestry Reports

An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG IV

(2016)   BOTANICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

EARLYWOOD VESSELS IN RING-POROUS TREES BECOME FUNCTIONAL FOR WATER TRANSPORT AFTER BUD BURST AND BEFORE THE MATURATION OF THE CURRENT-YEAR LEAVES

(2016) Peter Kitin et al.   IAWA JOURNAL

TRACHEID AND PIT ANATOMY VARY IN TANDEM IN A TALL SEQUOIADENDRON GIGANTEUM TREE

(2016) Martina Lazzarin et al.   IAWA JOURNAL

Does leaf shedding protect stems from cavitation during seasonal droughts? A test of the hydraulic fuse hypothesis

(2016) Brett T. Wolfe et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Conflicting demands on angiosperm xylem: Tradeoffs among storage, transport and biomechanics

(2016) R. Brandon Pratt et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

Structural determinants of increased susceptibility to dehydration-induced cavitation in post-fire resprouting chaparral shrubs

(2016) Anna L. Jacobsen et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

First insights into the functional role of vasicentric tracheids and parenchyma in eucalyptus species with solitary vessels: do they contribute to xylem efficiency or safety?

(2016) Antonio José Barotto et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

Single vessel air injection estimates of xylem resistance to cavitation are affected by vessel network characteristics and sample length

(2016) Martin D. Venturas et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

Pit membrane structure is highly variable and accounts for a major resistance to water flow through tracheid pits in stems and roots of two boreal conifer species

(2015) Paul J. Schulte et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

A metacalibrated time-tree documents the early rise of flowering plant phylogenetic diversity

(2015) Susana Magallón et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

How to Study Adaptation (and Why To Do It That Way)

(2015) Mark E. Olson et al.   QUARTERLY REVIEW OF BIOLOGY

Nanobubbles: a new paradigm for air-seeding in xylem

(2015) H. Jochen Schenk et al.   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

Optimal stomatal behaviour around the world

(2015) Yan-Shih Lin et al.   Nature Climate Change

Functional Traits and Water Transport Strategies in Lowland Tropical Rainforest Trees

(2015) Deborah M. G. Apgaua et al.   PLoS One

Freezing regime and trade-offs with water transport efficiency generate variation in xylem structure across diploid populations of Larrea sp. (Zygophyllaceae)

(2014) Juliana S. Medeiros et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Universal hydraulics of the flowering plants: vessel diameter scales with stem length across angiosperm lineages, habits and climates

(2014) Mark E. Olson et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

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

(2014) Erika J. Edwards et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Rate of tree carbon accumulation increases continuously with tree size

(2014) N. L. Stephenson et al.   NATURE

Convergence of terrestrial plant production across global climate gradients

(2014) Sean T. Michaletz et al.   NATURE

Xylem hydraulic evolution, I. W. Bailey, and Nardini & Jansen (2013): pattern and process

(2014) Mark E. Olson   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Do lianas really have wide vessels? Vessel diameter–stem length scaling in non-self-supporting plants

(2014) Julieta A. Rosell et al.   PERSPECTIVES IN PLANT ECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS

Cavitation Resistance in Seedless Vascular Plants: The Structure and Function of Interconduit Pit Membranes

(2014) C. Brodersen et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Comparative axial widening of phloem and xylem conduits in small woody plants

(2014) Giai Petit et al.   TREES-STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION

Fibre dimorphism: cell type diversification as an evolutionary strategy in angiosperm woods

(2013) Sherwin Carlquist   BOTANICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Embolism resistance as a key mechanism to understand adaptive plant strategies

(2013) Frederic Lens et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN PLANT BIOLOGY

Phenological cues drive an apparent trade-off between freezing tolerance and growth in the family Salicaceae

(2013) Jessica A. Savage et al.   ECOLOGY

Plant response to climate change along the forest-tundra ecotone in northeastern Siberia

(2013) Logan T. Berner et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Convergent Vessel Diameter–Stem Diameter Scaling across Five Clades of New and Old World Eudicots from Desert to Rain Forest

(2013) Mark E. Olson et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PLANT SCIENCES

Three keys to the radiation of angiosperms into freezing environments

(2013) Amy E. Zanne et al.   NATURE

Fibre wall and lumen fractions drive wood density variation across 24 Australian angiosperms

(2013) Kasia Ziemińska et al.   AoB Plants

Maintenance of xylem Network Transport Capacity: A Review of Embolism Repair in Vascular Plants

(2013) Craig R. Brodersen et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

Spatial distribution and packing of xylem conduits

(2012) J. Martinez-Vilalta et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Radial wood allocation in Schizolobium parahyba

(2012) G. B. Williamson et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Coordinated evolution of leaf and stem economics in tropical dry forest trees

(2012) Rodrigo Méndez-Alonzo et al.   ECOLOGY

Vessel diameter-stem diameter scaling across woody angiosperms and the ecological causes of xylem vessel diameter variation

(2012) Mark E. Olson et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

An overview of the anatomy, development and evolution of the vascular system of lianas

(2012) Veronica Angyalossy et al.   Plant Ecology & Diversity

Testing the equi-resistance principle of the xylem transport system in a small ash tree: empirical support from anatomical analyses

(2012) D. Bettiati et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

Leaf phenology is associated with soil water availability and xylem traits in a tropical dry forest

(2012) Rodrigo Méndez-Alonzo et al.   TREES-STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION

The developmental renaissance in adaptationism

(2012) Mark E. Olson   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Orthogonal rotation in PCAMIX

(2012) Marie Chavent et al.   Advances in Data Analysis and Classification

Freeze/Thaw-Induced Embolism: Probability of Critical Bubble Formation Depends on Speed of Ice Formation

(2012) Sanna Sevanto et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

Angiosperm phylogeny: 17 genes, 640 taxa

(2011) Douglas E. Soltis et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Anatomical features associated with water transport in imperforate tracheary elements of vessel-bearing angiosperms

(2011) Yuzou Sano et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Refilling embolized xylem conduits: Is it a matter of phloem unloading?

(2011) Andrea Nardini et al.   PLANT SCIENCE

Successive Cambia: A Developmental Oddity or an Adaptive Structure?

(2011) Elisabeth M. R. Robert et al.   PLoS One

The evolution of the worldwide leaf economics spectrum

(2011) Lisa A. Donovan et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Angiosperm wood structure: Global patterns in vessel anatomy and their relation to wood density and potential conductivity

(2010) Amy E. Zanne et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Measuring wood specific gravity…Correctly

(2010) G. Bruce Williamson et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Leaves of pioneer and later-successional trees have similar lifetime carbon gain in tropical secondary forest

(2010) N. Galia Selaya et al.   ECOLOGY

Vessel diameter and xylem hydraulic conductivity increase with tree height in tropical rainforest trees in Sulawesi, Indonesia

(2010) Alexandra Zach et al.   FLORA

Moving water well: comparing hydraulic efficiency in twigs and trunks of coniferous, ring-porous, and diffuse-porous saplings from temperate and tropical forests

(2010) Katherine McCulloh et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Testing hypotheses that link wood anatomy to cavitation resistance and hydraulic conductivity in the genus Acer

(2010) Frederic Lens et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Establishing a missing link: warm summers and winter snow cover promote shrub expansion into alpine tundra in Scandinavia

(2010) Martin Hallinger et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

The challenge of tree height in Eucalyptus regnans: when xylem tapering overcomes hydraulic resistance

(2010) Giai Petit et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

The Impact of Vessel Size on Vulnerability Curves: Data and Models for Within-Species Variability in Saplings of Aspen,Populus tremuloidesMichx

(2010) Jing Cai et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

Moving with climbing plants from Charles Darwin's time into the 21st century

(2009) S. Isnard et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Towards a worldwide wood economics spectrum

(2009) Jerome Chave et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Plant physiology in theory and practice: An analysis of the WBE model for vascular plants

(2009) Giai Petit et al.   JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY

Tapering of xylem conduits and hydraulic limitations in sycamore (Acer pseudoplatanus) trees

(2009) Giai Petit et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Freeze-thaw-induced embolism in Pinus contorta: centrifuge experiments validate the ‘thaw-expansion hypothesis’ but conflict with ultrasonic emission data

(2009) Stefan Mayr et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Single-vessel flow measurements indicate scalariform perforation plates confer higher flow resistance than previously estimated

(2009) MAIRGARETH A. CHRISTMAN et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

Inter-species variation of photosynthetic and xylem hydraulic traits in the deciduous and evergreen Euphorbiaceae tree species from a seasonally tropical forest in south-western China

(2008) Jun-Wen Chen et al.   ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH

Expanding forests and changing growth forms of Siberian larch at the Polar Urals treeline during the 20th century

(2008) NADEZHDA DEVI et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

The transpiration of water at negative pressures in a synthetic tree

(2008) Tobias D. Wheeler et al.   NATURE