Global patterns of the leaf economics spectrum in wetlands [PDF]
Nature Communications, 2020 Leaf economics spectrum theory has greatly advanced understanding of plant functional ecology, but it is unclear whether its predictions hold in wetland communities.
Yingji Pan +9 more
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Highly Species-Specific Foliar Metabolomes of Diverse Woody Species and Relationships with the Leaf Economics Spectrum [PDF]
Cells, 2021 Plants show an extraordinary diversity in chemical composition and are characterized by different functional traits. However, relationships between the foliar primary and specialized metabolism in terms of metabolite numbers and composition as well as ...
Rabea Schweiger +4 more
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Intraspecific variation in soy across the leaf economics spectrum [PDF]
Annals of Botany, 2019 Intraspecific trait variation (ITV) is an important dimension of plant ecological diversity, particularly in agroecosystems, where phenotypic ITV (within crop genotypes) is an important correlate of key agroecosystem processes including yield. There are few studies that have evaluated whether plants of the same genotype vary along well-defined axes of ...
Naresh Thevathasan +2 more
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Novel evidence for within-species leaf economics spectrum at multiple spatial scales [PDF]
Frontiers in Plant Science, 2015 Leaf economics spectrum (LES), characterizing covariation among a suite of leaf traits relevant to carbon and nutrient economics, has been examined largely among species but hardly within species. In addition, very little attempt has been made to examine
Yu-Kun eHu +14 more
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The Leaf Economics Spectrum Constrains Phenotypic Plasticity Across a Light Gradient [PDF]
Frontiers in Plant Science, 2020 The leaf economics spectrum (LES) characterizes multivariate correlations that confine the global diversity of leaf functional traits onto a single axis of variation.
Xiaoping Chen +9 more
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Testing models for the leaf economics spectrum with leaf and whole-plant traits inArabidopsis thaliana [PDF]
AoB PLANTS, 2015 The leaf economics spectrum (LES) describes strong relationships between multiple functional leaf traits that determine resource fluxes in vascular plants. Five models have been proposed to explain these patterns: two based on patterns of structural allocation, two on venation networks and one on resource allocation to cell walls and cell contents ...
François Vasseur +2 more
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Comparative transcriptomics of tropical woody plants supports fast and furious strategy along the leaf economics spectrum in lianas [PDF]
Biology Open, 2022 Lianas, climbing woody plants, influence the structure and function of tropical forests. Climbing traits have evolved multiple times, including ancestral groups such as gymnosperms and pteridophytes, but the genetic basis of the liana strategy is largely
U. Uzay Sezen +5 more
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The worldwide leaf economics spectrum [PDF]
Nature, 2004 Bringing together leaf trait data spanning 2,548 species and 175 sites we describe, for the first time at global scale, a universal spectrum of leaf economics consisting of key chemical, structural and physiological properties. The spectrum runs from quick to slow return on investments of nutrients and dry mass in leaves, and operates largely ...
Mark Westoby +2 more
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Physiological and structural tradeoffs underlying the leaf economics spectrum [PDF]
New Phytologist, 2017 Summary The leaf economics spectrum ( LES ) represents a suite of intercorrelated leaf traits concerning construction costs per unit leaf area, nutrient concentrations, and rates of carbon
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Incorporating pressure–volume traits into the leaf economics spectrum
Ecology Letters, 2023 Abstract In recent years, attempts have been made in linking pressure–volume parameters and the leaf economics spectrum to expand our knowledge of the interrelationships among leaf traits. We provide theoretical and empirical evidence for the coordination of the turgor loss point and associated traits with net CO
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