Water is a vital resource for plant survival, growth and distribution, and it is of significance to explore mechanisms of plant water-relations regulation and responses to drought in ecophysiology and global change ecology. Plants adapt to different climates and soil water regimes and develop...

Understanding the physiological mechanisms of response that allow plants to survive under suboptimal conditions such as drought stress is of particular interest, because of global climate change that threat the suitability of most terrestrial habitats for plant growth, as well as habitat...

Developing management practices that make more efficient use of irrigation is important for improving the sustainability of nursery crop production. Integrating refined irrigation scheduling with a substrate amendment like biochar can improve irrigation efficiency. The objective of this research...

Tree growth regulates forest productivity and carbon sequestration. Although there has been evidence showing positive effects of neighborhood diversity on tree growth, few have experimentally demonstrated how tree growth may respond to neighborhood diversity in natural forests under altered water...

Soil salinity is one of the main factors affecting plant growth. Dissection of plant response to salinity into physiological traits may result a simple approximation than the overall response that may influence many aspects of the plant. In the present study two factors were considered to evaluate...

Wood density constitutes an integrative trait of water relations and growth. We compared the recently developed blue intensity (BI) method, which has only rarely been applied to tropical conifers, for determining wood density with anatomical analyses in studying the three rarely investigated...

This paper put forward a model for calculating the water requirements of plants, including a transpiration model, stem water delivery model, and root water uptake model. The results showed that the model had good accuracy. The relative error between simulated values and measured values was...

World-wide, forests are experiencing drought-induced mortality. However, physiological adaptation to drought is highly variable, which may lead to differential mortality patterns and alter community structure. In this study, saplings of four common tree species (Ormosia pinnata, Dalbergia odorifera...

The survival and performance of urban forests are increasingly challenged by urban drought, consequently compromising the sustainability and functionality of urban vegetation. Plant-water relations largely determine species drought tolerance, yet little is known about the hydraulics of urban forest ...

Drought can alter leaf senescence and nutrient resorption, but whether these alterations are consistent between trees of contrasting leaf habits remains unclear. We conducted an experiment for 2 years with potted saplings to compare leaf habit and drought effects on leaf abscission dynamics and...