Tanja Lenz

TL;DR: TRY as discussed by the authors is a global database of plant traits, including morphological, anatomical, physiological, biochemical and phenological characteristics of plants and their organs, which can be used for a wide range of research from evolutionary biology, community and functional ecology to biogeography.

TL;DR: P-V curve traits and field-measured shoot xylem pressures were characterized across 62 species from four sites differing in rainfall and soil phosphorus, and species seemed to vary in leaf-response strategy reflected in TLP independently from water-uptake strategy.

TL;DR: The AusTraits database as discussed by the authors is a collection of values of plant traits for taxa in the Australian flora, including physiological measures of performance (e.g. photosynthetic gas exchange, water-use efficiency) to morphological attributes (ee. g. leaf area, seed mass, plant height) which link to aspects of ecological variation.

TL;DR: The finding that the degree to which species rely on stem-stored water varies with site rainfall suggests that changes in drought regimes under future climates could differentially affect species according to the capacitance properties of their woody tissues.

TL;DR: In this article, the importance of extreme flooding events and temporal patterns of water availability as determinants of diversity in riparian vegetation communities has been highlighted, which may have significant consequences for plant communities experiencing alterations to hydrology caused by anthropogenic flow modification and the changing climate.