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Phenotypic plasticity and the leaf economics spectrum: plasticity is positively associated with specific leaf area

Oikos, 2022
Phenotypic plasticity is a key mechanism by which plants respond to changing or heterogeneous conditions. Efforts to predict phenotypic plasticity across plant species have mainly focused on environmental variability or abiotic conditions, i.e. site characteristics.
Gisela C. Stotz, Cristian Salgado‐Luarte, Víctor M. Escobedo, Fernando Valladares, Ernesto Gianoli   +4 more
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Biogeographic constraints on the world‐wide leaf economics spectrum

Global Ecology and Biogeography, 2012
ABSTRACTAim  The world‐wide leaf economic spectrum (LES) describes tight coordination of leaf traits across global floras, reported to date as being largely independent of phylogeny and biogeography. Here, we present and test an alternative, historical perspective that predicts that biogeography places significant constraints on global trait evolution.
J. Mason Heberling, Jason D. Fridley
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Leaf Nutrient Resorption Efficiency is Related to Leaf Economic Spectrum But Not Root Economic Spectrum in a Tropical Mangrove Forest

not-yet-known not-yet-known not-yet-known unknown Leaf nutrient resorption efficiency (NuRE) serves as a metric for delineating plant strategies that range from ‘slow-fast’ performance to conservative-acquisitive resource management.
Dalong Jiang, Tao Nie, Qiuyu He, Zuo Xu, Erhui Feng, Yali Guan   +5 more
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A BACKGROUND ABOUT LEAF ECONOMIC SPECTRUM IN TROPICAL VEGETATION

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The Leaf Economic Spectrum (LES) describes the different strategies of leaves in capturing and using resources, ranging from fast-growing species with short-lived leaves to those that adopt a more conservative approach, investing in durable and efficient leaves in the use of resources.
Mariana Alves Faitanin, Carlos Eduardo de Rezende, Dora Maria Villela   +2 more
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Leaf carbon and oxygen isotopes are coordinated with the leaf economics spectrum in Mediterranean rangeland species

Functional Ecology, 2017
Abstract The leaf economics spectrum (LES) describes covariation in traits relevant to carbon and nutrient economics across plant species, but much less is known about the relationship between the LES and leaf water economy. We propose an approach combining the measurement of two leaf traits related to water‐use economy, leaf carbon (δ13C) and oxygen
Iván Prieto, José I. Querejeta, Jules Segrestin, Florence Volaire, Catherine Roumet   +4 more
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The leaf economics spectrum and the prediction of photosynthetic light–response curves

Functional Ecology, 2010
Summary 1. In this paper we determine whether interspecific variation in entire photosynthetic light–response curves correlates with the leaf traits of the ‘leaf economics spectrum’ (LES) and the degree to which such traits can predict interspecific variation in light–response curves.
Giancarlo Marino, Marouane Aqil, Bill Shipley   +2 more
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Partial coordination of leaf water relations with the leaf economics spectrum across diverse forest types

Plant Physiology
Abstract Understanding how leaf water relations integrate with carbon economy is central to plant physiological ecology and to predictions of vegetation responses to environmental change, yet the degree of their coordination remains debated.
Tingting Dong, Lawren Sack, Miquel Nadal, Weiying Xu, Ülo Niinemets, William M Hammond, Tim J Brodribb, Fengqi Wu, Nan Zhang, Yike Gao, Dongliang Xiong, Hui Liu, Dayong Fan, Alec Baird, Yusuke Onoda, Jaume Flexas, Zhengbing Yan   +16 more
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The leaf economics spectrum of Poaceae reflects variation in survival strategies

Plant Biosystems - An International Journal Dealing with all Aspects of Plant Biology, 2007
Abstract Leaf morphology reflects a trade-off between maximising resource acquisition and investment in structural/metabolic durability, and continuous variation in such leaf economics is apparent even within traditional plant functional type categories such as ‘grasses’. We hypothesised that the leaf economics spectrum of ‘grasses’ reflects a spectrum
S. Pierce, R. M. Ceriani, R. DE Andreis, A. Luzzaro, B. Cerabolini   +4 more
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New insights into the leaf economic spectrum could benefit terrestrial models

New Phytologist
This article is a Commentary on Asao et al. (2025), 246: 1505–1519.
Anna B. Harper, Simon Jones
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EXTENDING THE LEAF ECONOMICS SPECTRUM TO DECOMPOSITION: EVIDENCE FROM A TROPICAL FOREST

Ecology, 2007
I investigated the relationship between leaf physiological traits and decomposition of leaf litter for 35 plant species of contrasting growth forms from a lowland tropical forest in Panama to determine whether leaf traits could be used to predict decomposition.
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