Differentiation of leaf water flux and drought tolerance traits in hemiepiphytic and nonhemiepiphytic Ficus tree species
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Guang-You Hao, Lawren Sack, Ai-Ying Wang, Kun-Fang Cao* and Guillermo Goldstein* Key Laboratory of Tropical Forest Ecology, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Menglun, Mengla, Yunnan Province 666303, China; Department of Biology, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida 33124, USA; Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California Los Angeles, 621 Charles E. Young Drive South, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA; Department of Biology, Simao Teachers’ College, Pu’er, Yunnan Province 665000, China; and Laboratorio de Ecologı́a Funcional, Departamento de Ciencias Biológicas, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Ciudad Universitaria Nuñez, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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