Water use efficiency of Cupressus gigantea is higher in mountain slope habitats compared to riverside habitats

Yueliang Jiang; Li Luan; Youlu Zuo; Shengyun Liu; Qiaoling He; Jingyu He; Ruru Wu; Gaoming Jiang; Meizhen Liu

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0311705

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Water use efficiency of Cupressus gigantea is higher in mountain slope habitats compared to riverside habitats

Yueliang Jiang,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation POWERCHINA Chengdu Engineering Corporation Limited, Chengdu, China
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Li Luan,

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation POWERCHINA Chengdu Engineering Corporation Limited, Chengdu, China
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Youlu Zuo,

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation POWERCHINA Chengdu Engineering Corporation Limited, Chengdu, China
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Shengyun Liu,

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation POWERCHINA Chengdu Engineering Corporation Limited, Chengdu, China
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Qiaoling He,

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation POWERCHINA Chengdu Engineering Corporation Limited, Chengdu, China
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Jingyu He,

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation POWERCHINA Chengdu Engineering Corporation Limited, Chengdu, China
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Ruru Wu,

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Sciences, University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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Gaoming Jiang,

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, College of Resources and Environment, University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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Meizhen Liu

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: mliu31514@163.com

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, College of Resources and Environment, University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

https://orcid.org/0009-0007-5723-7817

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Water use efficiency of Cupressus gigantea is higher in mountain slope habitats compared to riverside habitats

Yueliang Jiang,
Li Luan,
Youlu Zuo,
Shengyun Liu,
Qiaoling He,
Jingyu He,
Ruru Wu,
Gaoming Jiang,
Meizhen Liu

Published: September 26, 2025
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0311705

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