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, University of Edinburgh, UK (link to his letter)

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, USDA Forest Service, Oregon, USA (link to his letter)

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, University of Minnesota, USA (link to her letter)

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)