Lawren Sack

The PSInet Plant Water Potential Database: advancing new perspectives on plant water status, traits, and hydraulic processes

The paper introduces the PSInet database, a global collection of plant water potential time series, and highlights its potential for various ecological and physiological studies.

Beyond air-seeding: Dynamic, multiphase interactionsreveal a two-step mechanism of embolism propagation inangiosperm xylem

This paper identifies a two-step mechanism of embolism propagation in angiosperm xylem, involving bubble generation and embolism formation as distinct processes.

Drought tolerance is associated with constitutive gene expression, not plasticity, across California oak species

The paper examines gene expression patterns in California oak species to determine if drought tolerance is linked to constitutive expression or plasticity, finding constitutive expression is associated with drought tolerance.

Coordination of flux-related leaf and root traits impacts forest community assembly

The paper measures leaf and root traits in woody species to assess coordination and its impact on community structure, finding coordination of hydraulic traits and associations with ectomycorrhizal symbiosis and dominance.