Hydraulic vulnerability segmentation between branches and roots increases with environmental aridity
Weize Tang1,3, Hui Liu1, Xingyun Liang1, Pengcheng He1, Han Zhao1, Xiaorong Liu4, Qing Ye1,2,*
1Key Laboratory of Vegetation Restoration and Management of Degraded Ecosystems, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied Botany, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510650, China;
2College of Life Sciences, Gannan Normal University, Ganzhou, 341000, China; 3University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049 China;
4Sichuan University of Arts and Science, Tashi Road 519, Dazhou 635000, China
* Corresponding author: Qing Ye
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