BIG LEAF PROBLEM. “In contrast, a megaphyll intercepting at least twice as much solar energy (per unit area of the photosynthetic organ) reached temperatures approaching the highly conserved lethal threshold of extant tropical taxa because the same limited evaporative cooling was inadequate to dissipate the absorbed thermal energy.”
http://aob.oxfordjournals.org/content/96/3/345.full.pdf
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022