[UNKNOWN: PRESTIME] HACKE, UWE^*,1, SPERRY, JOHN¹, ¹ University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah. Desert shrub water relations with respect to soil characteristics and plant functional type.

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[UNKNOWN: PRESTIME] Ogle, Kiona^*,1, Reynolds, James¹, ¹ Duke University, Durham, NC. Reconstructing plant water uptake and root area profiles.

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[UNKNOWN: PRESTIME] Hultine, Kevin^*,1, Williams, David¹, Cable, William¹, Burgess, Steve², ¹ School of Renewable Natural Resources, Tucson, Arizona² Department of Integrated Biology, Berkeley, California. Hydraulic redistribution by deep roots of a Chihuahuan Desert phreatophyte.

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[UNKNOWN: PRESTIME] LUDWIG, FULCO^*,1, DAWSON, TODD², DE KROON, HANS³, ¹ Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands² University of California, Berkeley, Berekeley, California³ Nijmegen University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Competition between trees and grasses for water overwhelms effects of hydraulic lift in African savannas.

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[UNKNOWN: PRESTIME] Engelbrecht, Bettina^*,1, Kursar, Thomas^1,2, Tyree, Melvin³, ¹ engelbrb@bci.si.edu, Salt Lake City² Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama³ USDA Forest Service, Burlington. Drought resistance of seedlings of co-occuring tropical woody plants.

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[UNKNOWN: PRESTIME] Garkoti, Satish¹, Zobel, Donald^*,2, ¹ Kumaun University, Naini Tal, India² Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR. Does drought cause regeneration failure of Shorea robusta in the central Himalaya?

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[UNKNOWN: PRESTIME] Wayne, E.^*,1, Jurena, Paul¹, Van Auken, O.¹, ¹ University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas. Light response of Juniperus ashei and its role in spatial differences of seedlings beneath the woodland canopy and canopy edge.

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[UNKNOWN: PRESTIME] Jurena, Paul^*,1, Wayne, E.¹, Van Auken, O¹, ¹ University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas. Light response of Carex planostachys, an understory species in Juniperus ashei woodlands.

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[UNKNOWN: PRESTIME] McKay, John^*,1,2, Richards, James¹, Mitchell-Olds, Thomas², ¹ UC Davis, Davis, CA² Max-Planck-Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena, Germany. Genetics of drought adaptation in Arabidopsis thaliana: Natural variation, QTL mapping, near-isogenic lines and transformants.

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[UNKNOWN: PRESTIME] Alstad, Karrin^*,1,2, Hart, Stephen^1,2, ¹ School of Forestry, College of Ecosystem Science and Mgt., Flagstaff, AZ² Merriam Powell Center for Environmental Research, Flagstaff, AZ. Historic water-use of Populus trees along a diverted mountain stream in the eastern Sierra Nevada.

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