Hydrology: Current Research

The Coordination Stemmed likely from the Co-Variety of Soil Water and Supplement Accessibility along the Saltiness Inclination

Abstract

Yuling Zhang*

Background: Independence among leaf economics, leaf hydraulics and leaf size confers plants great capability in adapting to heterogeneous environments. However, it remains unclear whether the independence of the leaf traits revealed across species still holds within species, especially under stressed conditions. Here, a suite of traits in these dimensions were measured in leaves and roots of a typical mangrove species, which grows in habitats with a similar sunny and hot environment but different soil salinity in southern China.