Meta-analysis of liana leaf and wood hydraulic traits reveals a competitive advantage for water acquisition in moderate drought conditions


Félicien Meunier, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium, Long Nguyen, Lund University, Department of Geology, Lund, Sweden, Manfredo di Porcia e Brugnera, Ghent University, Computation and applied vegetation ecology lab, Gent, Belgium, Marcos Longo, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division, Berkeley, CA, United States, Xiangtao Xu, Cornell University, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Ithaca, NY, United States, Louis S Santiago, Univ of California, Riverside, United States and Hans Verbeeck, Ghent University, CAVELab - Computational and Applied Vegetation Ecology, Gent, Belgium