Lingling Zhu

TL;DR: It is found that species in mid-latitude regions have the narrowest thermal safety margins in upper canopy leaves; these regions are at the greatest risk of damage due to extreme heat-wave events, especially under conditions when leaf temperatures are further elevated by a lack of transpirational cooling.

TL;DR: Seasonal variations in Tcrit were positively correlated with the relative abundance of saturated FAs, with FAs accounting for 40% of Tcrit variation and the importance of both plastic adjustments and inherent differences determining contemporary continent-wide patterns in PHT is highlighted.

TL;DR: A systematic review to determine how plant thermal tolerance research is distributed across wild and domesticated plants, growth forms and biomes, and identify crucial knowledge gaps finds that lack of standardised methods and metrics compromises the potential for mechanistic insight.

TL;DR: These findings do not support a common practice in DGVMs of assigning fixed leaf trait values to plant functional types, and suggest that metabolic acclimation is possible, but far from universal.

TL;DR: Predicted values of photosynthetic traits, including carboxylation capacity (Vcmax ), derived from δ13 C, growth temperature and solar radiation, showed meaningful agreement with inferred values derived from gas-exchange measurements, supporting the general hypothesis that many key parameters required by Earth system models are adaptive and predictable from plants' growth environments.