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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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.
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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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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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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.
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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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Xylem anatomy differentiation explains coordinated variation of economic and hydraulic traits in urban tree species [PDF]
BMC Plant BiologyBackground 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
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Responses of leaf functional traits to different hydrological regimes and leaf economics spectrum in the water level fluctuation zone of Three Gorges Reservoir, China [PDF]
Frontiers in Plant Science, 2022 Chen Ye, Zhengjian Yang, Zhu Shijiang
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Plant diversity within communities, not among them, stabilizes grassland productivity across spatial scales [PDF]
Nature CommunicationsEvidence shows that local functional trait composition and diversity along the fast–slow leaf economics spectrum can predict the temporal stability of community productivity in response to environmental changes.
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The Cortical Chlorenchyma Collaboration Gradient Dominates the Shoot Economics Space in Larix principis-rupprechtii [PDF]
LifePlant economics is based on carbon and nutrients rather than money. While leaf strategies aboveground are well characterized along an economic spectrum from “fast-growing and short-lived” to “slow and conservative,” economic models defined by aboveground
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