Plant hydraulics as a central hub integrating plant and ecosystem function: meeting report for ‘Emerging Frontiers in Plant Hydraulics’ (Washington, DC, May 2015)

Authors

Lawren Sack, University of California, Los Angeles
Marilyn C. Ball, The Australian National University
Craig Brodersen, Yale University
Stephen D. Davis, Pepperdine University
David L. Des Marais, Harvard University
Lisa A. Donovan, University of Georgia
Thomas J. Givnish, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Uwe G. Hacke, University of Alberta
Travis Huxman, University of California, Irvine
Steven Jansen, Universität Ulm
Anna L. Jacobsen, California State University, Bakersfield
Daniel M. Johnson, University of Idaho
George W. Koch, Northern Arizona University
Christophe Maurel, Université de Montpellier
Katherine A. McCulloh, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Nate G. McDowell, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Andrew McElrone, University of California, Davis
Frederick C. Meinzer, USDA ARS Corvallis Forestry Sciences Laboratory
Peter J. Melcher, Ithaca College
Gretchen North, Occidental College
Matteo Pellegrini, University of California, Los Angeles
William T. Pockman, The University of New Mexico
R. Brandon Pratt, California State University, Bakersfield
Anna Sala, University of Montana
Louis S. Santiago, University of California, Riverside
Jessica A. Savage, Harvard University
Christine Scoffoni, University of California, Los Angeles
Sanna Sevanto, Los Alamos National Laboratory
John Sperry, The University of Utah
Stephen D. Tyerman, The University of Adelaide
Danielle Way, The University of Western Ontario

Department(s)

Natural Science

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

9-1-2016

Keywords

cavitation, drought, embolism, genomics, phloem, stomata, vascular pathogens, vascular transport, xylem

Abstract

Water plays a central role in plant biology and the efficiency of water transport throughout the plant affects both photosynthetic rate and growth, an influence that scales up deterministically to the productivity of terrestrial ecosystems. Moreover, hydraulic traits mediate the ways in which plants interact with their abiotic and biotic environment. At landscape to global scale, plant hydraulic traits are important in describing the function of ecological communities and ecosystems. Plant hydraulics is increasingly recognized as a central hub within a network by which plant biology is connected to palaeobiology, agronomy, climatology, forestry, community and ecosystem ecology and earth-system science. Such grand challenges as anticipating and mitigating the impacts of climate change, and improving the security and sustainability of our food supply rely on our fundamental knowledge of how water behaves in the cells, tissues, organs, bodies and diverse communities of plants. A workshop, ‘Emerging Frontiers in Plant Hydraulics’ supported by the National Science Foundation, was held in Washington DC, 2015 to promote open discussion of new ideas, controversies regarding measurements and analyses, and especially, the potential for expansion of up-scaled and down-scaled inter-disciplinary research, and the strengthening of connections between plant hydraulic research, allied fields and global modelling efforts.

Publication Title

Plant Cell and Environment

ISSN

01407791

E-ISSN

13653040

Volume

39

Issue

9

First Page

2085

Last Page

2094

DOI

10.1111/pce.12732

PubMed ID

27037757

Recommended Citation

Sack, Lawren; Ball, Marilyn C.; Brodersen, Craig; Davis, Stephen D.; Des Marais, David L.; Donovan, Lisa A.; Givnish, Thomas J.; Hacke, Uwe G.; Huxman, Travis; Jansen, Steven; Jacobsen, Anna L.; Johnson, Daniel M.; Koch, George W.; Maurel, Christophe; McCulloh, Katherine A.; McDowell, Nate G.; McElrone, Andrew; Meinzer, Frederick C.; Melcher, Peter J.; North, Gretchen; Pellegrini, Matteo; Pockman, William T.; Pratt, R. Brandon; Sala, Anna; Santiago, Louis S.; Savage, Jessica A.; Scoffoni, Christine; Sevanto, Sanna; Sperry, John; Tyerman, Stephen D.; and Way, Danielle, "Plant hydraulics as a central hub integrating plant and ecosystem function: meeting report for ‘Emerging Frontiers in Plant Hydraulics’ (Washington, DC, May 2015)" (2016). Pepperdine University, All Faculty Open Access Publications. Paper 114.
https://digitalcommons.pepperdine.edu/faculty_pubs/114