The Heterogeneity and Spatial Patterning of Structure and Physiology across the Leaf Surface in Giant Leaves of Alocasia macrorrhiza

• Shuai Li,

  Affiliations School of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui Province, China, Key Laboratory of Tropical Forest Ecology, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Menglun, Mengla, Yunnan Province, China

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• Yong-Jiang Zhang,

  Affiliations Key Laboratory of Tropical Forest Ecology, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Menglun, Mengla, Yunnan Province, China, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Lawren Sack,

  Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

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• Christine Scoffoni,

  Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

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• Atsushi Ishida,

  Affiliation Center for Ecological Research, Kyoto University, Otsu, Shiga, Japan

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• Ya-Jun Chen,

  Affiliations Key Laboratory of Tropical Forest Ecology, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Menglun, Mengla, Yunnan Province, China, Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

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• Kun-Fang Cao

  * E-mail: caokf@xtbg.ac.cn

  Affiliations Key Laboratory of Tropical Forest Ecology, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Menglun, Mengla, Yunnan Province, China, State Key Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Subtropical Agro-Bioresources, The Key Laboratory of Ministry of Education for Microbial and Plant Genetic Engineering, and College of Forestry, Guangxi University, Nanning, Guangxi Province, China

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