1:30 PM: Dunham, Sonya^*,1, Ganio, Lisa ¹, Gartner, Barbara¹, ¹ Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, Hierarchical analysis of structural and functional tradeoffs in hydraulic properties of Douglas-fir xylem.

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1:50 PM: Choat, Brendan^*,1, Zwieniecki, Maciej², Holbrook, Michele¹, ¹ Harvard University, Cambridge, MA² Arnold Arboretum, Boston, MA, Xylem hydraulic resistance and diurnal fluctuation in ionic concentration of xylem sap of Acer saccharum.

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2:10 PM: Bond, Barbara¹, Ryan, Michael², Phillips, Nathan³, McDowell, Nate⁴, Meinzer, Frederick⁵, ¹ Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR² U.S. Forest Service, Rocky Mtn. Station, Fort Collins, CO³ Boston University, Boston, MA⁴ Los Alamos National Labs, Los Alamos, NM⁵ U.S. Forest Service - PNW Laboratory, Corvallis, OR, Hydraulic limitations of tree height and tree growth: Revisiting the hypothesis after a decade of research.

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2:30 PM: Mencuccini, Maurizio¹, Martinez-Vilalta, Jordi¹, Vanderklein, Dirk ², Hazandy, Hamid¹, Korakaki, Evangelia¹, ¹ University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK² Montclair University, Montclair, NJ, USA, Size, not cellular senescence, explains reduced vigour in tall trees.

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2:50 PM: Nikinmaa, Eero^*,1, Peramaki, Martti¹, Karimaki, Janne¹, Duursma, Remko¹, Berninger, Frank², Makela, Annikki¹, ¹ Department of Forest Ecology, Helsinki, Finland² Departmnt of Biological Sciences, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Trade-off between photosynthetic production, transpiration and leaf-area sapwood area relationship in Scots pine.

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3:20 PM: Anfodillo, Tommaso¹, Carraro, Vinicio¹, Carrer, Marco¹, Fior, Claudio¹, Rossi, Sergio¹, ¹ University of Padova - Italy, Padova, Plant hydraulics: Moving fluids at the lowest cost.

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3:40 PM: Marshall, John^*,1, Monserud, Robert², ¹ University of Idaho, Moscow² USDA Forest Service, Portland, OR, Trends and autocorrelation in the tree-ring ¹⁸O signal: Sources, sinks, or succession?

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4:00 PM: Susiluoto, Sanna^*,, Perämäki, Martti, Nikinmaa, Eero , Berninger, Frank, , Water relations and sink limitations at the treeline.

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4:20 PM: Medeiros, Juliana¹, Pockman, Will¹, ¹ Department of Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA, Hydraulic constraints on transpiration in two size classes of Larrea tridentata.

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4:40 PM: Cavender-Bares, Jeannine^{*,1, 3}, Miles, Brianna^{1, 3}, Terwilliger, Valery^{2, 3}, Urgenson, Lauren^{3, 5}, Parker, Geoffrey³, Lovelock, Catherine^{3, 4}, ¹ Ecology, Evolution & Behavior, St. Paul, MN, USA³ Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Edgewater, MD, USA² Geography Department, Lawrence, KS, USA⁵ University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA⁴ Center for Marine Studies, Brisbane, Queensland, AU, Intraspecific variation in hydraulic conductance and water use efficiency of oak trees and seedlings across natural and experimental hydrologic gradients.

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