“…This contribution might be particularly important in plant communities where occult precipitation events coincide with soil dry periods, such as in Mediterranean coastal ecosystems (Burgess & Dawson, 2004; Corbin et al, 2005), temperate steppes (Cavallaro et al, 2020) and in the eastern Amazon Forest (Binks et al, 2021). In saline and freshwater wetlands, although soil water is abundant year‐round, the excessive salinity or insufficient oxygenation levels in the soil can impair root water and nutrient uptake, thus likely increasing the relative advantage accrued via aerial uptake (Bryant, Fuenzalida, Zavafer, et al, 2021; Nguyen et al, 2017). In those ecosystems, the competitive advantage of accessing the third layer may vary seasonally, and possibly diurnally, according to the interaction between tidal flows and evaporative demand (Bryant, Fuenzalida, Brothers, et al, 2021).…”