Title: Plant water use strategy determines winners and losers under climate change
Running title: Plant ecophysiology as predictor for demography
Kristiina Visakorpi1,2,*, Sebastián Block (munguia@princeton.edu)1,3, Loïc Pellissier (loic.pellissier@usys.ethz.ch)1,2, Jonathan M. Levine (levinej@princeton.edu)3 and Jake Alexander (jake.alexander@usys.ethz.ch)1
1) Department of Environmental Systems Science, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
2) Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland
3) Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
* Corresponding author
Address: ETH Zürich CHN, H12.1, Universitätstrasse 16, 8006 Zürich, Switzerland
Phone: +447468887679
Email: kristiina.visakorpi@gmail.com
Type of article: Letter
148 words in the abstract, 4980 words in the main text, 82 references, 4 figures and 2 tables.
Keywords: plant, ecophysiology, functional, traits, climate change, alpine
Statement of authorship: SB, LP, JL and JA designed and set up the experiment, SB and KV collected the data, KV analyzed the data and wrote the first version of the manuscript, and all authors contributed substantially to revisions.
Data availability statement: Should the manuscript be accepted, the data supporting the results will be archived in Figshare.