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Trade-offs between water use efficiency and hydraulic conductivity across 52 woody species distributed in three forests along a precipitation gradient

#Adaptation | #CarbonAssimilation | #ClimateChange | #Distribution | #WoodDensity

https://doi.org/10.1093/jpe/rtaf186

Kilara Waris et al. estimated global spatiotemporal patterns of #WoodDensity and their relationships with #ModernClimate and #Paleoclimate.

#Angiosperms | #Cenozoic | #GlobalVariation | #Phylogeny | #TraitEvolution

https://doi.org/10.1093/jpe/rtaf003

#LatitudinalPatterns of #Angiosperm #WoodDensity (WD)
1️⃣Related to hemisphere position.
North: latitude⬆️, mean WD⬇️
South: latitude⬆️, mean WD⬆️
2️⃣ #EnvironmentalTemperature and #PrecipitationSeasonality play a major role.
https://doi.org/10.1093/jpe/rtaf003