Within the Bauhinia genus is there a trade off between stem strength and hydraulic efficiency?
Tag - wood density
William Salter
Why large leaved plants have wide piths
Corner’s rules describe a global spectrum from large-leaved plants with thick, sparingly branched twigs with low-density stem tissues and thick piths to plants with thin, highly branched stems with high-density stem...
Alex Assiry
Hydraulic efficiency in two Patagonian trees keeps constant across a precipitation gradient
Generalist tree species growing across broad climatic gradients pose an intriguing question about how they can deal with such strong variations in climate. Studying the conductive system of trees may give a clue about...
Functional traits partially mediate the effects of chronic anthropogenic disturbance on the growth of a tropical tree
Understanding how trees mediate the effects of chronic anthropogenic disturbance is fundamental to developing sustainable forest management strategies. Several tree species in Africa are repeatedly defoliated at large...
Non-structural carbohydrate dynamics in shrubland under drought-induced die-off
The relationship between plant carbon economy and drought responses of co-occurring woody species can be assessed by comparing carbohydrate (C) dynamics following drought and rain periods, relating these dynamics to...
botanyone
Core business: X-ray CT toolchain for tree-ring analysis
Disentangling tree growth requires more than ring width only. Although X-ray densitometry is an established technique to determine key wood density parameters, tedious manual procedures hamper fast analyses. De Mil et...
Some trees might have adapted to cope with embolisms instead of preventing them
Drought is expected to increase in frequency and duration throughout the 21st century. However, it remains unclear how vegetation will respond to drought because the underlying physiological mechanisms are not well...
Danielle Marias
Biomechanical responses of hemlock to herbivory
Soltis et al. study the impact of feeding by hemlock woolly adelgid, Adelges tsugae, on the biomechanics of eastern hemlock trees, Tsuga canadensis.
Wood density and functional differentiation of axial and radial parenchyma
The functional relationship between cell types and three xylem functions of conduction, support and storage using approximately 800 tree species from China.
AJ Cann
Stem hydraulic traits and leaf phenology
The co-occurrence of evergreen and deciduous species in tropical dry forests suggests the existence of different water-use strategies among the species. Fu et al. study six evergreen and six deciduous tree species co...
Modelling crown and wood characteristics of Pinus
Functional–structural tree models can be used not only for biomass and crown architecture modelling, but also for wood properties. Using L-system language, Fernández et al. develop a model based on plant allometry and...
High-resolution proxies for wood microdensitometry
High-resolution proxies for wood microdensitometry Density is a crucial variable in forest and wood science, but gravimetric methods of measurement are mostly destructive and time-consuming. De Ridder et al. derive...
