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.
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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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Intraspecific variation in soy across the leaf economics spectrum. [PDF]
Ann Bot, 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 ...
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Large-scale climatic and geophysical controls on the leaf economics spectrum. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2016 Significance Ecology seeks general principles describing how the biota respond to multiple environmental factors, partly to build a more prognostic science in the face of global climate change. One such principle to emerge is the “leaf economics spectrum” (LES), which relates ecologically important plant nutrients to leaf construction and ...
Asner GP +4 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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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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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
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Time for a Plant Structural Economics Spectrum [PDF]
Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 2019 We argue that tree and crown structural diversity can and should be integrated in the whole-plant economics spectrum. Ecologists have found that certain functional trait combinations have been more viable than others during evolution, generating a trait ...
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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 ...
Wright, I.J. +32 more
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Leaf economics spectrum in rice: leaf anatomical, biochemical, and physiological trait trade-offs. [PDF]
J Exp Bot, 2018 The leaf economics spectrum (LES) is an ecophysiological concept describing the trade-offs of leaf structural and physiological traits, and has been widely investigated on multiple scales. However, the effects of the breeding process on the LES in crops, as well as the mechanisms of the trait trade-offs underlying the LES, have not been thoroughly ...
Xiong D, Flexas J.
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