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.
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