{"id":1055,"date":"2025-01-28T09:31:18","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T16:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abclab.rc.nau.edu\/?p=1055"},"modified":"2025-01-28T09:55:47","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T16:55:47","slug":"new-paper-on-plasticity-in-cottonwood-leaf-venation-and-stomatal-traits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abclab.rc.nau.edu\/index.php\/2025\/01\/28\/new-paper-on-plasticity-in-cottonwood-leaf-venation-and-stomatal-traits\/","title":{"rendered":"New paper on plasticity in cottonwood leaf venation and stomatal traits"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"css-146c3p1 r-1xnzce8\" dir=\"auto\" data-word-wrap=\"1\">Iris Garthwaite, a former Master&#8217;s student and NSF GRFP recipient now at the USGS, dug into lab techniques and image analysis for quantifying leaf venation and stomatal traits for her recent paper in Ecology and Evolution: <a class=\"css-1jxf684 r-1xnzce8 r-1loqt21\" role=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/ece3.70683\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-no-underline=\"1\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/ece3.70683<\/a>. Along with two former undergraduates in our lab, Catherine Lepp and Zyled Rodriguez, she found clear consequences of these traits for tree growth at the hot edge of Fremont cottonwood&#8217;s range:<\/div>\n<div class=\"css-146c3p1 r-1xnzce8\" dir=\"auto\" data-word-wrap=\"1\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" style=\"font-size: 1.5rem;\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.bsky.app\/img\/feed_fullsize\/plain\/did:plc:eeh4w4zew5vpxwuc7nuf7kq6\/bafkreicog56balg7vdhydh5syfpyzzvfpmr6gwz7zeppzbri6qp4cmvejq@jpeg\" \/><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" data-word-wrap=\"1\">\n<div class=\"css-146c3p1 r-1xnzce8\" dir=\"auto\" data-word-wrap=\"1\"><span style=\"font-size: 1.5rem;\">but<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1.5rem;\"> also complex patterns of genotype-specific plasticity that are not easily explained by selection in more predictably variable environments:<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"css-175oi2r\">\n<div class=\"css-175oi2r\">\n<div class=\"css-175oi2r\">\n<div class=\"css-175oi2r r-1loqt21 r-1otgn73\" tabindex=\"0\" aria-label=\"\">\n<div class=\"css-175oi2r\">\n<div class=\"css-175oi2r\" data-expoimage=\"true\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.bsky.app\/img\/feed_fullsize\/plain\/did:plc:eeh4w4zew5vpxwuc7nuf7kq6\/bafkreih6q3kxcyrtkhwibvh4gysabvv2ygsc66mdrkb7omuhuj55ff27eq@jpeg\" \/><\/div>\n<div data-expoimage=\"true\"><span style=\"font-size: 1.5rem;\">Her research raises<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1.5rem;\"> a lot of interesting questions about the consequences of past and future climate variability for evolutionary and ecological responses in riparian forest ecosystems already experiencing major declines!<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" data-word-wrap=\"1\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iris Garthwaite, a former Master&#8217;s student and NSF GRFP recipient now at the USGS, dug into lab techniques and image analysis for quantifying leaf venation and stomatal traits for her recent paper in Ecology and Evolution: https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/ece3.70683. Along with two <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/abclab.rc.nau.edu\/index.php\/2025\/01\/28\/new-paper-on-plasticity-in-cottonwood-leaf-venation-and-stomatal-traits\/\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6,5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cottonwoods","category-grad-research","category-publications"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abclab.rc.nau.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abclab.rc.nau.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abclab.rc.nau.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abclab.rc.nau.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abclab.rc.nau.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1055"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/abclab.rc.nau.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1063,"href":"https:\/\/abclab.rc.nau.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1055\/revisions\/1063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abclab.rc.nau.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abclab.rc.nau.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abclab.rc.nau.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}