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Opportunities, challenges and pitfalls in characterizing plant water-use strategies

Journal Article · · Functional Ecology
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  1. School of Biological Sciences University of Utah Salt Lake City UT USA
  2. Department of Geology and Geophysics University of Utah Salt Lake City UT USA; Arizona Experiment Station, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences University of Arizona Tucson AZ USA
  3. O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs Indiana University Bloomington IN USA
  4. Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geo‐Engineering University of Minnesota Minneapolis MN USA; Saint Anthony Falls Laboratory University of Minnesota Minneapolis MN USA
  5. National Center for Atmospheric Research Boulder CO USA
  6. Department of Earth System Science Stanford University Stanford CA USA
  7. CREAF, Bellaterra (Cerdanyola del Vallès) Catalonia Spain; Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra (Cerdanyola del Vallès) Catalonia Spain
  8. Department of Geological Sciences Jackson School of Geosciences University of Texas Austin TX USA

Not provided.

Research Organization:
Univ. of Texas, Austin, TX (United States); Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC)
DOE Contract Number:
SC0020116; SC0022052
OSTI ID:
1980604
Journal Information:
Functional Ecology, Vol. 36, Issue 1; ISSN 0269-8463
Publisher:
British Ecological Society; Wiley
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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