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Mangroves in hypersaline coastal habitats are under constant high xylem tension and face great risk of hydraulic dysfunction. To investigate the relationships between functional traits and salt management, we measured 20 hydraulic and photosynthetic traits in four salt-adapted (SA) and two non-SA (NSA) mangrove tree species in south China. The SA species included two salt secretors (SSs),  Avicennia marina  (Forsskål) Vierhapper and  Aegiceras corniculatum  (L.) Blanco and two salt excluders (SEs),  Bruguiera gymnorrhiza  (L.) Savigny and  Kandelia obovata  (L.) Sheue et al. The two NSA species were  Hibiscus tiliaceus  (L.) and  Pongamia pinnata  (L.) Merr. Extremely high xylem cavitation resistance, indicated by water potential at 50% loss of xylem conductivity (Ψ 50 ; −7.85 MPa), was found in SEs. Lower cavitation resistance was observed in SSs, and may result from incomplete salt removal that reduces the magnitude of xylem tension required to maintain water uptake from the soil. Surprisingly, the NSA species,  P. pinnata , had very low Ψ 50  (−5.44 MPa). Compared with NSAs, SAs had lower photosynthesis, vessel density, hydraulic conductivity and vessel diameter, but higher sapwood density. Eight traits were strongly associated with species’ salt management strategies, with predawn water potential (Ψ PD ) and mean vessel diameter accounting for 95% flow ( D  95 ) having the most significant association;  D  95  separated SAs from NSAs and SEs had the lowest Ψ PD . There was significant coupling between hydraulic traits and carbon assimilation traits. Instead of hydraulic safety being compromised by xylem efficiency, mangrove species with higher safety had higher efficiency and greater sapwood density ( ρ  Sapwood ), but there was no relationship between  ρ  Sapwood  and efficiency. Principal component analysis differentiated the species of the three salt management strategies by loading  D ,  D  95  and vessel density on the first axis and loading Ψ PD , Ψ 50  and water potential at 12% loss of xylem conductivity (Ψ 12 ),  ρ  Sapwood  and quantum yield on the second axis. Our results provide the first comparative characterization of hydraulic and photosynthetic traits among mangroves with different salt management strategies.

Salt management strategy defines the stem and leaf hydraulic characteristics of six mangrove tree species