Another reason could be to avoid HF in high salinity areas; trees might have adapted reduced leaf size (as we observed a decreasing trend of LAI with salinity) to avoid water loss via transpiration, as plants avoid HF by closing stomata ( Joshi et al., 2022 ; Raschke, 1976 ).
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How biotic, abiotic, and functional variables drive belowground soil carbon stocks along stress gradient in the Sundarbans Mangrove Forest?
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