Add new study: Li_2018

[yangsophieee]

Study investigating variation in key hydraulic and carbon economy traits of 12 woody species in Australia across a broad climatic gradient, using a common garden approach.

Questions for review:

• Unsure what the life_stage is -- they grew plants from seed, seedlings were transplanted in 2016 and then grown and measured until maybe May 2017? So one or two years old. Is it just juvenile?
• Is there a water_potential_12percent_lost_conductivity? I can only find 50 and 88.
• Just checking that Ks is sapwood_specific_conductivity, not stem_specific_conductivity? From text: "Kfinal was normalized by the pressure gradient, sapwood area, and stem length to obtain initial and final xylem-specific hydraulic conductivity (Ks, kg m−1 s−1 MPa−1)."
• Do we have traits for Ψleaf at 50% of maximum stomatal conductance ("Early decline of stomatal conductance; proxy of Ψleaf at which stomata initiate closure") and 10% of maximum stomatal conductance ("Maximum water stress while still maintaining minimal photosynthesis; proxy of complete stomatal closure")?
• What about Cbranch ('Amount of releasable water of living cells as xylem tension increases') and VIGR ('Stem volume index growth rate, a surrogate of plant growth rate')?
• I'm a bit confused with the methods for Amax, it says "Leaf net carbon assimilation rate (An)... were measured by placing the leaf into a 2 × 3 cm cuvette supplied with saturating light (1,500 μmol m−2 s−1) and ambient CO2 concentration (420 μmol mol−1)." If it's ambient CO2 then that's not Amax right? But they say it was for An not Amax. In the section before it says the following but I'm not sure what it means: "During this phase, leaf gas exchange characteristics and corresponding leaf water potential (Ψleaf, MPa) were measured periodically until positive net photosynthesis (Amax, μmol m−2 s−1) was no longer detectable."
• It's unclear to me whether they performed gas exchange measurements on just drought treatment plants or on all of them. "Gas exchange measurements were conducted on recent, fully expanded leaves. During drought stress, the healthiest fully expanded leaf on each individual plant was chosen." I've assumed for replicates that it's all of the plants for now.
• Need to check taxonomic updates
• Will the new names, e.g. sapwood_specific_conductivity to sapwood_specific_hydraulic_conductivity be updated when merged or do we need to do that here?