The association of leaf sulfur content with the leaf economics spectrum and plant adaptive strategies [PDF]
Functional Plant Biology, 2021 Sulfur is an essential macronutrient for plant primary metabolism. Its availability can modulate plant growth in most terrestrial ecosystems. However, its relationship with other leaf and nutrient traits, and hence its contribution to plant functioning, remains unclear.
Michele Dalle Fratte +3 more
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Linking xylem hydraulic conductivity and vulnerability to the leaf economics spectrum--a cross-species study of 39 evergreen and deciduous broadleaved subtropical tree species. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 While the fundamental trade-off in leaf traits related to carbon capture as described by the leaf economics spectrum is well-established among plant species, the relationship of the leaf economics spectrum to stem hydraulics is much less known.
Wenzel Kröber +3 more
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FUNDAMENTAL TRADE-OFFS GENERATING THE WORLDWIDE LEAF ECONOMICS SPECTRUM [PDF]
Ecology, 2006 Recent work has identified a worldwide "economic" spectrum of correlated leaf traits that affects global patterns of nutrient cycling and primary productivity and that is used to calibrate vegetation-climate models. The correlation patterns are displayed by species from the arctic to the tropics and are largely independent of growth form or phylogeny ...
Shipley, Bill +3 more
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Traits along the leaf economics spectrum are associated with communities of foliar endophytic symbionts [PDF]
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2022 Leaf traits of plants worldwide are classified according to the Leaf Economics Spectrum (LES), which links leaf functional traits to evolutionary life history strategies.
Peter H. Tellez +7 more
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Peeking beneath the hood of the leaf economics spectrum [PDF]
New Phytologist, 2017 This article is a commentary on Onoda et al., 214: 1447–1463.
Habacuc Flores-Moreno, Peter Reich
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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
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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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Evaluating fungal pathogen resistance across the leaf economics spectrum using the generalist fungus Sclerotinia sclerotiorum [PDF]
Scientific ReportsLeaf traits vary widely among plant species, correlating with leaf economics and growth-defense trade-offs. However, the relationship between trait variation and pathogen resistance remains unexplored.
Keisuke O. Watanabe +3 more
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Altitudinal Variation in Trade‐Off Strategies of the Plant Economics Spectrum of Pinus massoniana Plantations in Subtropical Mountains [PDF]
Ecology and EvolutionElevational gradients are natural laboratories for plant ecological strategies, much as altitudinal shifts in tree composition have advanced understanding of forest assembly and dynamics.
Kun Nie, Ming Xu, Jian Zhang
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Mercury Accumulation is Related to the Leaf Economics Spectrum [PDF]
Water, Air, & Soil PollutionAbstract Mercury (Hg) is a highly toxic metal with a complex biogeochemistry and the principles governing Hg uptake in different types of vegetation represent a knowledge gap. By combining published information from three sources with new data we investigated the rate of Hg accumulation in a wide range of leaf types from broadleaved ...
Håkan Pleijel +3 more
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