Complementary Strategies of Hydraulic Variability and Conservative Stomatal Regulation Enable Widespread Distributions in a Heterogeneous Karst Landscape
Xiaojuan Wang, Xuefeng Ma, Rilian Ma, Bin Wang, Fengsen Tan, Qiwei Zhang · 2025
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Xiaojuan Wang and co-authors published a plant study in 2025 on how widespread trees cope with the patchy water of a tropical karst forest. Steep soil and water gradients split habitats sharply there. The team measured leaf and stem water traits plus pore control strictness in three common woody species along a dryness gradient.
All three species tightened pore control as sites dried. Two species also varied their plumbing traits widely, favoring safety and thriving on dry hilltops. The third kept fixed traits and leaned on strict pore control alone, spreading widely but competing weakly. The authors frame trait flexibility plus careful pore use as complementary routes to wide ranges.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Xiaojuan Wang, Xuefeng Ma, Rilian Ma, Bin Wang, Fengsen Tan, Qiwei Zhang |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 41 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |