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Lawren Sack

University of California, Los Angeles · US
Area of research
Global and Planetary Change · Nature and Landscape Conservation
Research interest
Research interests include Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Plant and animal studies, and Plant responses to water stress.
h-index
93
citations
37,589
works
296
NIH funding
primary concept
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Recent publications

Simplification of woody plant trait networks among communities along a climatic aridity gradient
Journal of Ecology 2025cited by 18position: lastdoi
Pinpointing the causal influences of stomatal anatomy and behavior on minimum, operational, and maximum leaf surface conductance
PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 2024cited by 18position: lastdoi
Relationships of stomatal morphology to the environment across plant communities
Nature Communications 2023cited by 84position: middledoi
Mycorrhizal feedbacks influence global forest structure and diversity
Communications Biology 2023cited by 51position: middledoi
The dynamic multi‐functionality of leaf water transport outside the xylem
New Phytologist 2023cited by 41position: lastdoi
The ecosystem wilting point defines drought response and recovery of a <scp> <i>Quercus‐Carya</i> </scp> forest
Global Change Biology 2023cited by 22position: lastdoi
Thresholds for persistent leaf photochemical damage predict plant drought resilience in a tropical rainforest
New Phytologist 2023cited by 18position: middledoi
Ghosts of dry seasons past: Legacy of severe drought enhances mangrove salinity tolerance through coordinated cellular osmotic and elastic adjustments
Plant Cell & Environment 2023cited by 17position: middledoi
Burning questions for a warming and changing world: 15 unknowns in plant abiotic stress
The Plant Cell 2022cited by 153position: middledoi
Leaf water potential measurements using the pressure chamber: Synthetic testing of assumptions towards best practices for precision and accuracy
Plant Cell & Environment 2022cited by 143position: lastdoi
Leaf trait network architecture shifts with species‐richness and climate across forests at continental scale
Ecology Letters 2022cited by 123position: middledoi
Predicting ecosystem productivity based on plant community traits
Trends in Plant Science 2022cited by 90position: middledoi
Thermal sensitivity across forest vertical profiles: patterns, mechanisms, and ecological implications
New Phytologist 2022cited by 89position: middledoi
Distribution of biomass dynamics in relation to tree size in forests across the world
New Phytologist 2022cited by 72position: middledoi
Leaf habit affects the distribution of drought sensitivity but not water transport efficiency in the tropics
Ecology Letters 2022cited by 36position: middledoi
Forest fluxes and mortality response to drought: model description (ORCHIDEE-CAN-NHA r7236) and evaluation at the Caxiuanã drought experiment
Geoscientific model development 2022cited by 31position: middledoi
Contrasting adaptation and optimization of stomatal traits across communities at continental scale
Journal of Experimental Botany 2022cited by 28position: middledoi
Testing the association of relative growth rate and adaptation to climate across natural ecotypes of <i>Arabidopsis</i>
New Phytologist 2022cited by 27position: lastdoi
Detecting forest response to droughts with global observations of vegetation water content
Global Change Biology 2021cited by 207position: middledoi
Hydraulically‐vulnerable trees survive on deep‐water access during droughts in a tropical forest
New Phytologist 2021cited by 124position: middledoi
Developmental and biophysical determinants of grass leaf size worldwide
Nature 2021cited by 117position: lastdoi
Leaf turgor loss point shapes local and regional distributions of evergreen but not deciduous tropical trees
New Phytologist 2021cited by 71position: middledoi
Plant Trait Networks: Improved Resolution of the Dimensionality of Adaptation
Trends in Ecology & Evolution 2020cited by 282position: middledoi
Global root traits (GRooT) database
Global Ecology and Biogeography 2020cited by 217position: middledoi
Tree height and leaf drought tolerance traits shape growth responses across droughts in a temperate broadleaf forest
New Phytologist 2020cited by 132position: middledoi
Prediction of leaf water potential and relative water content using terahertz radiation spectroscopy
Plant Direct 2020cited by 61position: lastdoi
Climatic sensitivity of species’ vegetative and reproductive phenology in a Hawaiian montane wet forest
Biotropica 2020cited by 11position: lastdoi
A stomatal safety-efficiency trade-off constrains responses to leaf dehydration
Nature Communications 2019cited by 230position: lastdoi
Thresholds for leaf damage due to dehydration: declines of hydraulic function, stomatal conductance and cellular integrity precede those for photochemistry
New Phytologist 2019cited by 202position: lastdoi
Anatomical constraints to nonstomatal diffusion conductance and photosynthesis in lycophytes and bryophytes
New Phytologist 2019cited by 128position: middledoi

Grants

Collaborative Research: Frontiers in Xylem/Phloem Integration: The Influence of Transport Physiology on Photosynthesis, Growth and Drought Responses from Leaves to Ecosystems
NSF2517066$941,3792026–2029PIRePORTER
Collaborative Research: MRA: Scaling from Traits to Forest Ecosystem Fluxes and Responses to Climate Change, from Stand to Continent
NSF2017949$873,6992020–2025PIRePORTER
COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: THE CRITICAL IMPORTANCE OF DIVERSE LEAF "HAIRSTYLES": INTEGRATIVE QUANTIFICATION OF ANATOMY, FUNCTION, EVOLUTION AND ECOLOGY OF TRICHOMES
NSF1951244$689,9292020–2024PIRePORTER
Functional and Genetic Basis of Leaf Venation: Testing and Expanding Theory and Core Knowledge with Arabidopsis Vein Mutants and Ecotypes
NSF1457279$1,119,8712015–2020PIRePORTER
Collaborative Research: Meeting: Vascular Transport in Plants - Research Frontiers and Priorities (Washington, DC March 2015)
NSF1445238$35,6602014–2016PIRePORTER
COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: Mechanisms for the decline of leaf hydraulic conductance with dehydration, and plant and environment level impacts
NSF1147292$573,9662012–2016PIRePORTER
Collaborative Research: The Evolution of Leaf Form in Viburnum (Adoxaceae)
NSF0842771$120,4212009–2013PIRePORTER
CAREER: The coordination of leaf hydraulics, structure and gas exchange
NSF0753233$828,8002007–2012PIRePORTER
CAREER: The coordination of leaf hydraulics, structure and gas exchange
NSF0546784$887,9892006–2007PIRePORTER

Frequent collaborators

Christine Scoffoni · California State University Los Angeles31 papers (2012–2024)Thomas N. Buckley · University of California, Davis19 papers (2015–2024)Megan K. Bartlett · University of California, Davis16 papers (2012–2023)Grace P. John · University of Florida15 papers (2013–2024)Susan Cordell · Princeton University7 papers (2014–2020) · 7 papers (2014–2020)Nianpeng He · Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China7 papers (2017–2023)Congcong Liu · Minzu University of China7 papers (2017–2023)Jérôme Chave · University of Connecticut5 papers (2015–2023)Kristina J. Anderson‐Teixeira · Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute5 papers (2020–2022)Brendan Choat · Western Sydney University5 papers (2012–2022)Craig R. Brodersen · Yale University5 papers (2016–2022)Li Xu · Nanjing Agricultural University5 papers (2017–2022)Christian Henry · UCLA Health4 papers (2018–2025)Caetano Albuquerque · California State University, Monterey Bay4 papers (2016–2023)Leila R. Fletcher · Southern Oregon University4 papers (2018–2025)Steven Jansen · Guangxi University4 papers (2016–2023)Erika J. Edwards · University of Lausanne4 papers (2012–2021)Kun Fang Cao · Guangxi University4 papers (2012–2015)Kun‐Fang Cao · Guangxi University4 papers (2013–2017)