As the energy gain of plants in the form of carbon always involves a cost of water, water transport and photosynthesis are associated key processes of trees’ life. In this perspective, we have ...

Researchers at the Technical University of Munich developed iLand, a state-of-the-art computer model that can predict how ...

However, it turns out that the tree model of evolution is somewhat counterintuitive and easily misunderstood. This may be the reason why biologists have only in the last few decades come to ...