Does foliage on the same branch compete for the same water? Experiments on Douglas-fir trees

Do branchlets within a branch have autonomous water supplies, or do they share a common water supply system? We hypothesized that if branchlets shared a common water supply, then stomatal conductance (g^sub s^) on sunlit foliage would increase with reduced transpiration of competing foliage on the b...

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