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Plant Science and Agronomy
USA
2026

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Plant Science and Agronomy

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99
Citations
43015
World Ranking
164
National Ranking
56

Ecology and Evolution

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99
Citations
43031
World Ranking
289
National Ranking
119

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Plant Science and Agronomy in United States Leader Award

Overview

Lawren Sack is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their research spans Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a particular focus on plant and ecosystem-level studies.

The main fields of study for Lawren Sack include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences

Within these fields, they have contributed extensively to several subfields of study:

  • Plant Science
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Atmospheric Science

Key research topics addressed by Lawren Sack cover a broad range of plant and ecological processes:

  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Tree-ring climate responses
  • Plant responses to water stress
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Forest ecology and management
  • Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism

Lawren Sack has published multiple papers in a variety of scientific venues. Some recent publications include:

  • "Plant Trait Networks: Improved Resolution of the Dimensionality of Adaptation", 2020, Trends in Ecology & Evolution
  • "Global root traits (GRooT) database", 2020, Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • "Detecting forest response to droughts with global observations of vegetation water content", 2021, Global Change Biology
  • "Burning questions for a warming and changing world: 15 unknowns in plant abiotic stress", 2022, The Plant Cell
  • "Leaf water potential measurements using the pressure chamber: Synthetic testing of assumptions towards best practices for precision and accuracy", 2022, Plant Cell & Environment

Frequent publication venues for Lawren Sack include:

  • New Phytologist
  • Plant Cell & Environment
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Global Change Biology

Lawren Sack collaborates often with several co-authors in their research efforts. These frequent collaborators include:

  • Thomas N. Buckley
  • Christine Scoffoni
  • Nianpeng He
  • Congcong Liu
  • Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira

Best Publications

  • New handbook for standardised measurement of plant functional traits worldwide

    N. Pérez-Harguindeguy;S. Díaz;E. Garnier;S. Lavorel

  • Corrigendum to: New handbook for standardised measurement of plant functional traits worldwide

    N. Pérez-Harguindeguy;S. Díaz;E. Garnier;S. Lavorel

  • TRY - a global database of plant traits

    J. Kattge;S. Díaz;S. Lavorel;I. C. Prentice

  • TRY plant trait database : Enhanced coverage and open access

    Jens Kattge;Gerhard Bönisch;Sandra Díaz;Sandra Lavorel

  • The determinants of leaf turgor loss point and prediction of drought tolerance of species and biomes: a global meta‐analysis

    Megan K. Bartlett;Christine Scoffoni;Lawren Sack

  • Global climatic drivers of leaf size.

    Ian J. Wright;Ning Dong;Ning Dong;Vincent Maire;Vincent Maire;I. Colin Prentice;I. Colin Prentice

  • The ‘hydrology’ of leaves: co‐ordination of structure and function in temperate woody species

    L. Sack;P. D. Cowan;N. Jaikumar;N. M. Holbrook

  • Leaf hydraulics.

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  • Meta-analysis reveals that hydraulic traits explain cross-species patterns of drought-induced tree mortality across the globe

    William R. L. Anderegg;Tamir Klein;Megan Bartlett;Lawren Sack

  • Leaf venation: structure, function, development, evolution, ecology and applications in the past, present and future

    Lawren Sack;Christine Scoffoni

  • CTFS-ForestGEO: A worldwide network monitoring forests in an era of global change

    Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira;Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira;Stuart J. Davies;Stuart J. Davies;Amy C. Bennett;Erika B. Gonzalez-Akre

  • The correlations and sequence of plant stomatal, hydraulic, and wilting responses to drought

    Megan K. Bartlett;Tamir Klein;Steven Jansen;Brendan Choat

  • Global importance of large‐diameter trees

    James A. Lutz;Tucker J. Furniss;Daniel J. Johnson;Stuart J. Davies

  • Decline of Leaf Hydraulic Conductance with Dehydration: Relationship to Leaf Size and Venation Architecture

    Christine Scoffoni;Michael Rawls;Athena McKown;Hervé Cochard

  • What is conservation physiology? Perspectives on an increasingly integrated and essential science†

    Steven Cooke;Lawren Sack;Craig E Franklin;Anthony P Farrell

  • LEAF STRUCTURAL DIVERSITY IS RELATED TO HYDRAULIC CAPACITY IN TROPICAL RAIN FOREST TREES

    Lawren Sack;Lawren Sack;Kristen Frole

  • Which is a better predictor of plant traits: temperature or precipitation?

    Angela T. Moles;Sarah E. Perkins;Shawn W. Laffan;Habacuc Flores-Moreno

  • Ecological differentiation in xylem cavitation resistance is associated with stem and leaf structural traits

    Lars Markesteijn;Lourens Poorter;Horacio Paz;Lawren Sack

  • Developmentally based scaling of leaf venation architecture explains global ecological patterns

    Lawren Sack;Christine Scoffoni;Athena D. McKown;Kristen Frole

  • How does biomass distribution change with size and differ among species? An analysis for 1200 plant species from five continents

    Hendrik Poorter;Andrzej M. Jagodzinski;Ricardo Ruiz-Peinado;Ricardo Ruiz-Peinado;Shem Kuyah

  • Viewing leaf structure and evolution from a hydraulic perspective

    Tim J. Brodribb;Taylor S. Feild;Taylor S. Feild;Lawren Sack

Frequent Co-Authors

Christine Scoffoni
Christine Scoffoni California State University Los Angeles
Susan Cordell
Susan Cordell US Forest Service
Rebecca Ostertag
Rebecca Ostertag University of Hawaii at Hilo
Peter B. Reich
Peter B. Reich University of Minnesota
Thomas N. Buckley
Thomas N. Buckley University of California, Davis
Hendrik Poorter
Hendrik Poorter Forschungszentrum Jülich
Christian P. Giardina
Christian P. Giardina US Forest Service
Kun-Fang Cao
Kun-Fang Cao Guangxi University
Stephen P. Hubbell
Stephen P. Hubbell University of California, Los Angeles
Ülo Niinemets
Ülo Niinemets Estonian University of Life Sciences

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