Journal
NEW PHYTOLOGIST
Volume 222, Issue 3, Pages 1207-1222Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/nph.15681
Keywords
hydraulics; mechanistic models; modelling; prediction; scaling; water relations; water transport; xylem
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- Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness via competitive [CGL2013-46808-R, CGL2017-89149-C2-1-R]
- Swedish Research Council Formas [2016-00998]
- Laboratory Directed Research and Development Program of Oak Ridge National Laboratory [8872]
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Models of plant water fluxes have evolved from studies focussed on understanding the detailed structure and functioning of specific components of the soil-plant-atmosphere (SPA) continuum to architectures often incorporated inside eco-hydrological and terrestrial biosphere (TB) model schemes. We review here the historical evolution of this field, examine the basic structure of a simplified individual-based model of plant water transport, highlight selected applications for specific ecological problems and conclude by examining outstanding issues requiring further improvements in modelling vegetation water fluxes. We particularly emphasise issues related to the scaling from tissue-level traits to individual-based predictions of water transport, the representation of nonlinear and hysteretic behaviour in soil-xylem hydraulics and the need to incorporate knowledge of hydraulics within broader frameworks of plant ecological strategies and their consequences for predicting community demography and dynamics.
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