Tree size and climatic water deficit control root to shoot ratio in individual trees globally

Affiliations

• ¹ School of Biological Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, AB24 3UU, UK.
• ² CSIRO Agriculture and CSIRO Land and Water, GPO Box 1700, Canberra, ACT, 2601, Australia.
• ³ University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 32615, USA.
• ⁴ Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Penrith, NSW, 2753, Australia.
• ⁵ Department of Agriculture and Food, Government of Western Australia, South Perth, WA, 6151, Australia.
• ⁶ CSIRO, Private Bag 5, Wembley, WA 6913, Australia.
• ⁷ Department of Ecology and Natural Resource Management, Norwegian University of Life Science, PO Box 5003, Ås, 1432, Norway.
• ⁸ Alterra Ltd, Suite 1, 25 Walters Drive, Osborne Park, WA, 6017, Australia.
• ⁹ Threshold Environmental Pty Ltd, PO Box 1124, Albany, WA, 6331, Australia.
• ¹⁰ Centre of Excellence in Natural Resource Management, The University of Western Australia, UWA Science Building, Level 3, 33-35 Stirling Terrace, Albany, WA, 6330, Australia.
• ¹¹ CREAF, Campus de Bellaterra (UAB) Edifici C, 08193, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain.
• ¹² ICREA, Passeig Lluís Companys 23, Barcelona, 08010, Spain.
• ¹³ Colo Consulting, 11 Killara Crescent, Winmalee, NSW, 2777, Australia.
• ¹⁴ Department of Silviculture and Forest Systems Management, INIA-CIFOR Forest Research Centre, Ctra. de la Coruña km. 7,5, 28040, Madrid, Spain.
• ¹⁵ iuFOR, Sustainable Forest Management Research Institute UVa-INIA, Av. de Madrid, 503, Palencia, 34004, Spain.
• ¹⁶ Department of Forest Resources Assessment and Management, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Box 3000, Chuo Kikuu, Morogoro, Tanzania.
• ¹⁷ School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh, Crew Building, King's Buildings, Alexander Crum Brown Road, Edinburgh, EH9 3FF, UK.
• ¹⁸ School of Environmental Science, Murdoch University, 90 South St, Murdoch, WA, 6150, Australia.
• ¹⁹ School of Geography Planning and Environmental Management, University of Queensland, St Lucia, Qld, 4072, Australia.
• ²⁰ CESAB, Fondation pour la Recherche sur la Biodiversite, Immeuble Henri Poincare, 2eme etage Domaine du Petit Arbois, Avenue Louis Philibert, 13100, Aix-en-Provence, France.
• ²¹ Fares Rural Pty Ltd, PO Box 526, Wembley, WA, 6913, Australia.
• ²² Department of Systematic Botany and Functional Biodiversity, Institute of Biology, Leipzig University, Johannisallee 21-23, Leipzig, 04103, Germany.
• ²³ German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Deutscher Platz 5E, Leipzig, 04103, Germany.
• ²⁴ Max-Planck-Institute for Biogeochemistry, Hans-Knoll-Str. 10, Jena, 07743, Germany.
• ²⁵ Centre for Crop and Disease Management, Department of Environment and Agriculture, Curtin University, GPO Box U1987, Perth, WA, 6845, Australia.
• ²⁶ Laboratoire Evolution et Diversite Biologique UMR 5174, CNRS, Universite Paul Sabatier, 118 route de Narbonne, Toulouse, 31062, France.