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Soil Compaction Drives an Intra-Genotype Leaf Economics Spectrum in Wine Grapes

Agriculture, 2022
Intraspecific trait variation is a critical determinant of ecosystem processes, especially in agroecosystems where single species or genotypes exist in very high abundance. Yet to date, only a small number of studies have evaluated if, how, or why traits
Adam R. Martin, Rachel O. Mariani, Kimberley A. Cathline, Michael Duncan, Nicholas J. Paroshy, Gavin Robertson   +5 more
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Xylem anatomy differentiation explains coordinated variation of economic and hydraulic traits in urban tree species [PDF]

BMC Plant Biology
Background Urban drought increasingly challenges the survival and performance of urban forests, consequently undermining their sustainability and productivity. Hydraulic-economic trait trade-offs are primary determinants of species drought tolerance, yet
Shuzhen Lv, Yanqiong Meng, Nuo Huang, Liuting Li, Jianan Wang, Yiyong Li   +5 more
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A second dimension to the leaf economics spectrum predicts edaphic habitat association in a tropical forest. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2010
Strong patterns of habitat association are frequent among tropical forest trees and contribute to the maintenance of biodiversity. The relation of edaphic differentiation to tradeoffs among leaf functional traits is less clear, but may provide insights ...
Jennifer L Baltzer, Sean C Thomas
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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 ...
Hayes FJ, Buchanan SW, Coleman B, Gordon AM, Reich PB, Thevathasan NV, Wright IJ, Martin AR.   +7 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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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, Knapp DE, Anderson CB, Martin RE, Vaughn N.   +4 more
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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
Nadal, Miquel, Clemente-Moreno, María, Perera-Castro, Alicia, Roig-Oliver, Margalida, Onoda, Yusuke, Gulías, Javier, Flexas, Jaume   +6 more
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The evolution of the worldwide leaf economics spectrum [PDF]

Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2011
The worldwide leaf economic spectrum (WLES) is a strikingly consistent pattern of correlations among leaf traits. Although the WLES effectively summarizes variation in plant ecological strategies, little is known about its evolution. We reviewed estimates of natural selection and genetic variation for leaf traits to test whether the evolution of the ...
Donovan, L.A., Maherali, H., Caruso, C.M., Huber, H., Kroon, Hans de   +4 more
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Differing Trade-Off Patterns of Tree Vegetative Organs in a Tropical Cloud Forest

Frontiers in Plant Science, 2021
Functional trait ecology demonstrates the significance of the leaf economics spectrum in understanding plants’ trade-off between acquisitive and conservative resource utilization.
Yuanyuan Yang, Yuanyuan Yang, Yuanyuan Yang, Chuchu Xiao, Chuchu Xiao, Chuchu Xiao, Xianming Wu, Wenxing Long, Wenxing Long, Guang Feng, Guang Feng, Guoying Liu, Guoying Liu   +12 more
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Leaf-level coordination principles propagate to the ecosystem scale

Nature Communications, 2023
Fundamental axes of variation in plant traits result from trade-offs between costs and benefits of resource-use strategies at the leaf scale. However, it is unclear whether similar trade-offs propagate to the ecosystem level.
Ulisse Gomarasca, Mirco Migliavacca, Jens Kattge, Jacob A. Nelson, Ülo Niinemets, Christian Wirth, Alessandro Cescatti, Michael Bahn, Richard Nair, Alicia T. R. Acosta, M. Altaf Arain, Mirela Beloiu, T. Andrew Black, Hans Henrik Bruun, Solveig Franziska Bucher, Nina Buchmann, Chaeho Byun, Arnaud Carrara, Adriano Conte, Ana C. da Silva, Gregory Duveiller, Silvano Fares, Andreas Ibrom, Alexander Knohl, Benjamin Komac, Jean-Marc Limousin, Christopher H. Lusk, Miguel D. Mahecha, David Martini, Vanessa Minden, Leonardo Montagnani, Akira S. Mori, Yusuke Onoda, Josep Peñuelas, Oscar Perez-Priego, Peter Poschlod, Thomas L. Powell, Peter B. Reich, Ladislav Šigut, Peter M. van Bodegom, Sophia Walther, Georg Wohlfahrt, Ian J. Wright, Markus Reichstein   +43 more
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