Symposium: The Water Limitation: Issues in Plant, Community and Ecosystem Water Use to be held at the annual meeting of Ecological Society of America in Snowbird, UT, August 200

在大多数自然和可管理的生态系统中，水是一种有限的资源。需要更好地了解植物用水，以便对这些系统的完整性和生产率进行知情管理。研讨会和相关的综述论文将总结生态植物水分关系的最新进展，并确定未来研究的基本领域。在植物个体层面，PIs将解决根到叶的水分运输机制，水力和化学信号在应对水分限制中的作用，以及损害修复机制。此外，PIS还将讨论个别植物用水对更大范围的社区和生态系统反应的影响。研讨会将为从植物生理学到生态系统生物学等研究领域的科学家提供广泛的服务。

Water is a limiting resource in most natural and managed ecosystems. A better understanding of plant water use is needed for informed management of the integrity and productivity these systems. The symposium and resultant review paper will summarize the recent advances in ecological plant water relations and identify essential areas for future research. At the individual plant level, the PIs will address root-to-leaf water transport mechanisms, the role hydraulic and chemical signalling in responses to water limitation, and damage repair mechanisms. Additionally the PIs will discuss the impact of individual plant water use on the larger scales of community and ecosystem responses. The symposium will serve a broad audience of scientists in research areas ranging from plant physiology to ecosystem biology.