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2026 and in press<\/strong><\/p>\n

231. Dong T, Sack L, Nadal M, Xu W, Niinemets \u00dc, Hammond WM, Brodribb TJ, Wu F, Zhang N, Gao Y, Xiong D, Baird A, Liu H, Fan D, Onoda Y, Flexas J, Yan Z. 2026. Partial coupling of pressure-volume traits with the leaf economics spectrum across diverse forest types. Plant Physiology<\/em>, in press.<\/p>\n

230. Duan M, Sack L, Baird AS, Ma Z. 2026. Cell wall pectin reshapes leaf drought tolerance in dry forests. Nature Communications<\/em>, in press.<\/p>\n

229. Mas E, Anderson-Teixeira KJ, Br\u00e4ndle J, Davies SJ, Bin Omar H, Hermmann V, Kosugi Y, McMahon SM, Medina-Vega JA, M\u00fcnchinger IK, Sack L, Leong YT, Kunert N. 2026.\u00a0Species\u2019 spatial distribution is not associated with leaf turgor loss point in an aseasonal wet tropical lowland forest. Biotropica<\/em>, in press.<\/p>\n

228. Sack L. 2026. Commentary: Locating a control of plant and ecosystem water fluxes deep in the leaf. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA<\/em>, in press.<\/p>\n

227. Shetzer MK, Danielson SC, Sack L, Scoffoni C, Medeiros JS. 2026. Environmental influences and coordination of Rhododendron<\/em> carbon and water economics at leaf and species scales. Functional Plant Biology<\/em>, in press.<\/p>\n

226. Wang R, Kong D, Han M, Sack L, Lambers H, Cornelissen JHC, Li Q, Zhang S, Wang X, Wang Z, Sun T, He N, Yu G. 2026. Root quantity traits: a leading dimension in root trait space. New Phytologist<\/em>, in press.<\/p>\n

225. Yan P, He N, Yu K, Sack L, Jiang L, Fern\u00e1ndez-Mart\u00ednez M. 2026. Plant elemental diversity increases ecosystem productivity and temporal stability. Ecological Monographs<\/em>, in press.<\/p>\n

224. Yang N, Wu F, Sack L, Querejeta JI, Cernusak LA, Dong T, Xy W, Townsend PA, Detto M, Pe\u00f1uelas J, Song X, Wang X, Crous KY, Gong X, Lamour J, Guerrieri R, Smith NG, Liu L, Wu J, Yan Z. 2026. Leaf elementomes reveal close links with leaf water-use strategies across diverse forest ecosystems: insights from trait coordination and reflectance spectroscopy. Plant, Cell & Environment<\/em>, in press.<\/p>\n

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2025<\/strong><\/p>\n

223. Baird A, Taylor SH, Pasquet-Kok J, Vuong C, Zhang Y, Watcharamongkol T, Cochard H, Scoffoni C, Edwards EJ, Osborne CP, Sack L. 2025. Resolving the contrasting leaf hydraulic adaptation of C3<\/sub> and C4<\/sub> grasses. New Phytologist\u00a0<\/em>245, 1924-1939. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1111\/nph.20341<\/a> pdf<\/a>\u00a0 Supporting Information<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

222. Li X, Burrows GE, Dong N, Kattge J, Jordan GJ, Lenz TI, Niinemets \u00dc, Onoda Y, Poorter H, Sack L, Villar R, Westoby M, Wright IJ. 2025. A thinner jacket for frosty and windy climates? Global patterns in leaf cuticle thickness and its environmental associations. New Phytologist<\/em> 248, 107-124. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1111\/nph.70397<\/a> pdf<\/a>\u00a0 Supporting Information<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

221. Liu C, Muir CD, Li Y, Li M, Zhang J, de Boer HJ, Sack L, Han X, Yu G, He N. 2025. Bounds on stomatal size can explain scaling with stomatal density in forest plants. New Phytologist <\/em>248, 2910-2926.<\/em> https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1111\/nph.70626<\/a> pdf<\/a>\u00a0 Supporting Information<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

220. Liu C, Sack L, Baird AS, Li Y, Zhang J, Yu K, Yu G, He N. 2025. Reply to: “Differences between dumbbell and kidney-bean stomatal types may influence relationships between stomatal traits and the environment”. Nature Communications <\/em>16, 6337. <\/em>https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41467-025-61636-x<\/a> pdf<\/a>\u00a0 Supplementary Information<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

219. Ma Z, Buckley TN, Sack L. 2025. The determination of leaf size on the basis of developmental traits. New Phytologist<\/em> 246: 461-480. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1111\/nph.20461<\/a> pdf<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0Supporting Information<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

218. Medeiros CD, Trueba S, Henry C, Fletcher LR, Lutz JA, M\u00e9ndez-Alonzo R, Kraft NJB, Sack L. 2025. Simplification of woody plant trait networks among communities along a climatic aridity gradient. Journal of Ecology<\/em> 113, 896-912. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1111\/1365-2745.70010<\/a> pdf<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0Supporting Information<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

217. Zailaa J, Trueba S, Browne MG, Fletcher LR, Buckley TN, Brodersen C, Scoffoni C, Sack L. 2025. Sensitive hydraulic and stomatal decline in extreme drought tolerant species of California Ceanothus<\/em>. Plant, Cell & Environment<\/em> 48, 1555-1573. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1111\/pce.15208<\/a> pdf<\/a>\u00a0 Supporting Information<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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2024<\/strong>
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216. Baird AS, Medeiros CD, Caringella MA, Bowers J*, Hii M*, Liang J*, Matsuda J*, Pisipati K*, Pohl C*, Simon B*, Tagaryan S*, Buckley TN, Sack L. 2024. How and why do species break a developmental trade-off? Elucidating the association of trichomes and stomata across species. American Journal of Botany<\/em> 111, e16328. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/ajb2.16328<\/a>. pdf<\/a>\u00a0 Supporting Information<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

215. Baird AS, Taylor SH, Reddi S*, Pasquet-Kok J, Vuong C, Zhang Y, Watcharamongkol T, John GP, Scoffoni C, Osborne CP, Sack L. 2024. Allometries of cell and tissue anatomy and photosynthetic rate across leaves of C3<\/sub> and C4<\/sub> grasses. Plant, Cell & Environment<\/em> 47, 156-173. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1111\/pce.14741<\/a>. pdf<\/a>\u00a0 Supporting Information<\/a><\/span>
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214. Binks O, Meir P, Konings AG, Cernusak L, Christoffersen BO, Anderegg WRL, Wood JD, Sack L, Martinez-Vilalta J, Mencuccini M. 2024. A theoretical framework to quantify ecosystem pressure-volume relationships. Global Change Biology<\/em> 30:e17567. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1111\/gcb.17567<\/a>. pdf<\/a>\u00a0 Supporting Information<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

213. Buckley TN, Sack L. 2024. Resolving micro-scale water potential gradients within leaves. Journal of Plant Hydraulics<\/em> 10, e-001. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.20870\/jph.2024<\/a>. pdf<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

212. Ochoa ME, Henry C, John GP, Medeiros CD, Pan R, Scoffoni C, Buckley TN, Sack L. 2024. Pinpointing the causal influences of stomatal anatomy and behavior on minimum, operational, and maximum leaf surface conductance. Plant Physiology <\/em>196, 51-66. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/plphys\/kiae292<\/a>. pdf<\/a>\u00a0 <\/em>Supplementary Data<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

211. Wood JD, Detto M, Browne M, Kraft NJB, Konings AG, Fisher JB, Quetin GR, Trugman AT, Magney TS, Medeiros CD, Vinod N, Buckley TN, Sack L. 2024. The ecosystem as super-organ\/ism, revisited: scaling hydraulics to forests under climate change. Integrative and Comparative Biology <\/em>64, 424-440. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/icb\/icae073<\/a>. pdf<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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2023 <\/strong><\/p>\n

210. Beckett HAA, Neeman T, Fuenzalida TI, Bryant C, Latorre SC, Ovington LI, Sack L. Meir P, Ball MC. 2023. Ghosts of dry seasons past: Legacy of severe drought enhances mangrove salinity tolerance through coordinated cellular <\/span>osmotic and elastic adjustments. Plant, Cell & Environment <\/em>46, 2031<\/span>\u2013<\/span>2045<\/span>. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1111\/pce.14604<\/a>. pdf<\/a>\u00a0 Supporting Information<\/a><\/span>
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209. Browne M, Bartlett MK, Henry C, Jarrahi M, John GP, Scoffoni C, Yardimci NT, Sack L. 2023. Low baseline intraspecific variation in leaf pressure-volume traits: biophysical basis and implications for spectroscopic sensing. Physiologia Plantarum <\/em>175, e13974. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1111\/ppl.13974<\/a>. pdf<\/a>\u00a0 Supporting Information<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

208. Delavaux CS, LaManna JA, Myers JA, Phillips RP, Aguilar S, Allen D, Alonso A, Anderson-Teixeira KJ, Baker ME, Baltzer JL, Bissiengou P, Bonfim M, Bourg NA, Brockelman WY, Burslem DFRP, Chang L-W, Chen Y, Chiang J-M, Chu C, Cloay K, Cordell S, Cortese M, den Ouden J, Dick C, Ediriweera S, Ellis EC, Feistner A, Freestone AL, Giambelluca T, Giardina CP, Gilbert GS, He F, Holik J, Howe RW, Huasca WH, Hubbell SP, Inman F, Jansen PA, Johnson DJ, Kral K, Larson AJ, Litton CM, Lutz JA, Malhbi Y, McGuire K, McMahon SM, McShea WJ, Memiaghe H, Nathalang A, Norden N, Novotny V, O’Brien MJ, Orwig DA, Ostertag R, Parker GG, Perez R, Reynolds G, Russo SE, Sack L, Samonil P, Sun I-F, Swanson ME, Thompson J, Uriarte M, Vandermeer J, Wang X, Ware I, Weiblen GD, Wolf A, Wu S-H, Zimmmerman JK, Lauber T, Maynard DS, Crowther TW, Averill C. 2023. Mycorrhizal feedbacks influence global forest structure and diversity. Communications Biology<\/em> 6, 1066. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s42003-023-05410-z<\/a>. pdf<\/a>\u00a0 Supplementary Information<\/a><\/p>\n

207. Fortunel C, Stahl C, Coste S, Ziegler C, Derroire G, Levionnois S, Mar\u00e9chaux I, Bonal D, H\u00e9rault B, Wagner FH, Sack L, Chave J, Heuret P, Jansen S, John G, Scoffoni C, Trueba S, Bartlett MK. 2023. Thresholds for persistent leaf photochemical damage predict plant drought resilience in a tropical rainforest. New Phytologist<\/em> 239, 576-591. <\/em>https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1111\/nph.18973<\/a>. pdf<\/a>\u00a0 Supporting Information<\/a><\/span><\/span>
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206. He N, Yan P, Liu C, Li X, Li M, Van Meerbeek K, Zhou G, Zhou G, Liu S, Zhou X, Li S, Niu S, Han X, Buckley TN, Sack L, Yu G. 2023. Predicting ecosystem productivity based on plant community traits. Trends in Plant Sciences <\/em>28, 43-53. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.tplants.2022.08.015<\/a>. pdf<\/a>\u00a0 Supplemental Information<\/a><\/p>\n

205. Liu C, Sack L, Li Y, Zhang J, Yu K, Zhang Q, He N, Yu G. 2023. Relationships of stomatal morphology to environment across plant communities. Nature Communications <\/em>14, 6629. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41467-023-42136-2<\/a>. pdf<\/a>\u00a0 Supplementary Information<\/a><\/p>\n

204. Medeiros CD, Henry C, Trueba S, Anghel I, D\u00edaz de Le\u00f3n Guerrero SD, Pivovaroff A, Fletcher LR, John GP, Lutz JA, Mendez Alonzo R, Sack L. 2023. Predicting plant species climate preferences on the basis of mechanistic traits. Functional Ecology<\/em> 37, 2786-2808. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1111\/1365-2435.14422<\/a>. pdf<\/a>\u00a0 Supporting Information<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n