The persons listed below have signed a letter sent to the Editor-in-Chief of the New Phytologist in response to the Tansley review of Zimmermann et al defaming the Cohesion-Tension Theory.
Send your own protest to the Editor-in-chief of the New Phytologist Ian Woodward (f.i.woodward@sheffield.ac.uk) with a copy to cochard@clermont.inra.fr if you wish to have it published here.
Hervé Cochard, INRA, Clermont-Ferrand, France (link to his letter)
John Sperry, University of Utah, USA (link to his letter)
Tom Hinckley, University of Washington, USA (link to his letter)
Frank Ewers, Michigan State University, USA (link to his letter)
Uwe Hacke, University of Utah, USA (link to his letter)
Renee Brooks, Corvallis, USA (link to her letter)
Tim Brodribb, Harvard University (link to his letter)
Andrea Nardini, University of Trieste, Italy (copy of HC’s letter)
Sebastiano Salleo, University of Trieste, Italy (copy of HC’s letter)
Serge Rambal, CNRS, Montpellier, France (link to his letter)
Lawren Sack, University of Hawai, USA (link to his letter)
Hanno Richter, Institute of Botany, Austria (link to his letter)
Claudio Lovisolo, University of Turin, Italy (link to their letter)
Andrea Schubert, University of Turin, Italy (link to their letter)
Paul Schulte, University of Nevada, USA (link to his letter)
Stefan Mayr, University Innsbruck, Austria (copy of HC’s letter)
Lyn Jones, University of Dundee, Scotland (link to his letter)
Mauricio Mencuccini
Peter Melcher, Ithaca College, USA (link to his letter)
Melvin Tyree, USDA-FS, Vermont, USA (link to his letter)
Jordi Martínez Vilalta, University of Edinburgh UK.
Tim Martin, University of Florida, USA
Stephen Mulkey, University of Florida, USA
Barbara Gartner, Oregon State University, USA
Jonathan Comstock, Cornell University, USA
Michael J Burns, formely Harvard University, USA (link to his letter)
Rick Meinzer
Jed P. Sparks, Cornell University, USA
Barbara Bond, Oregon State University, USA
Robert Teskey, University of Georgia, USA
N. Michelle Holbrook, Harvard University
Lisa Donovan, University of Georgia, USA
Jeannine Cavender-Bares
Guillermo Angeles, Instituto de Ecologia, A.C. Mexico
John S. Boyer, University of Delaware, USA
Mike Clearwater, HortResearch, New Zealand
Jean-Christophe Domec, Oregon State University, USA
Kathleen Kavanagh, University of Idaho, USA
Bev Law, Oregon State University, USA
Jorge López-Portillo, Instituto de Ecología, A.C., Mexico
Howard S. Neufeld, Appalachian State University, USA
John Passioura, CSIRO Plant Industry, Australia
R. Brandon Pratt, Pepperdine University, USA
Andrea Schubert, University of Turin, Italy
Pierre Cruiziat, INRA, Clermont-Ferrand, France (link to his letter)
Henry Dixon and J Joly, Trinity college, Dublin (link to their letter)
Ian Woodward, has responded to our letters in the following terms: (link to his letter)
Answers to Woodward’s letter:
Hervé Cochard (link to his letter)
Andrea Nardini (link to his letter)
John Sperry (link to his letter)
Sebastiano Salleo (link to his letter)
On behalf of the proponents of the CT-Theory, Renee Brooks has written the following letter to the Editor of the New Phytologist in response to U Zimmermann's Tansley Review. Ian Woodward has slightly edited the version that we have sent, so that “the scientific message is clear and comprehensible by all” (link to this final letter)