AUTHOR CONTRIBUTIONS
The experiment was designed by JDM and SL; JDM and AV conceived the
ideas and designed the methodology for the model comparison; PT, MP, and
ZRS collected the data; JC and MP analysed meteorological and EC data,
RO and PT designed the transpiration model, JDM and AV proposed the sap
flux/isotope method and made the cross analyses of the different models,
AM and XT provided PRELES estimates and ZRS provided gmdata. AV and JDM wrote the manuscript. All the authors contributed
critically to the drafts and gave final approval for publication.