Tree Physiology

期刊简介：Tree Physiology promotes research in a framework of hierarchically organized systems, measuring insight by the ability to link adjacent layers: thus, investigated tree physiology phenomenon should seek mechanistic explanation in finer-scale phenomena as well as seek significance in larger scale phenomena (Passioura 1979). A phenomenon not linked downscale is merely descriptive; an observation not linked upscale, might be trivial. Physiologists often refer qualitatively to processes at finer or coarser scale than the scale of their observation, and studies formally directed at three, or even two adjacent scales are rare. To emphasize the importance of relating mechanisms to coarser scale function, Tree Physiology will highlight papers doing so particularly well as feature papers.

【译文】树木生理学促进在层次组织系统框架内进行研究，通过连接相邻层的能力来衡量洞察力：因此，研究的树木生理学现象应在更精细尺度的现象中寻求机制解释，并在更大尺度的现象中寻求意义（Passioura 1979）。未与下尺度连接的现象仅仅是描述性的；未与上尺度连接的观察可能微不足道。生理学家经常对观察尺度更细或更粗的过程进行定性描述，而正式针对三个或甚至两个相邻尺度的研究是罕见的。为了强调将机制与更粗尺度功能相关联的重要性，树木生理学会突出特别擅长此点的论文作为特色论文。