Equivalence of foliar water uptake and stomatal conductance?
Binks, Oliver (The Australian National University)
Coughlin, Ingrid (The Australian National University)
Mencuccini, Maurizio (Centre de Recerca Ecològica i d'Aplicacions Forestals)
Meir, Patrick (University of Edinburgh)

Date:	2019
Note:	Foliar water uptake, FWU, the uptake of atmospheric water directly into leaves, has been reported to occur in nearly 200 species spanning a wide range of ecosystems distributed globally. In order to represent FWU in land-surface models, a conductance term is required to scale the process to the canopy level. Here we show that conductance to FWU is theoretically equivalent to stomatal conductance and that under commonly occurring conditions vapour could diffuse into leaves at rates equivalent to those reported as FWU. We therefore conclude that such 'reverse transpiration' could partially, or even wholly, account for FWU in some plants.
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Language:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Published in:	Plant, cell & environment, Vol 43, Issue 2 (February 2020) p. 524-528, ISSN 1365-3040

DOI: 10.1111/pce.13663

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