Physiological and structural tradeoffs underlying the leaf economics spectrum [PDF]
New Phytologist, 2017 Summary The leaf economics spectrum ( LES ) represents a suite of intercorrelated leaf traits concerning construction costs per unit leaf area, nutrient concentrations, and rates of carbon
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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 ...
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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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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.
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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 ...
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How do leaf veins influence the worldwide leaf economic spectrum? Review and synthesis [PDF]
Journal of Experimental Botany, 2013 Leaf vein traits are implicated in the determination of gas exchange rates and plant performance. These traits are increasingly considered as causal factors affecting the 'leaf economic spectrum' (LES), which includes the light-saturated rate of photosynthesis, dark respiration, foliar nitrogen concentration, leaf dry mass per area (LMA) and leaf ...
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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
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Testing models for the leaf economics spectrum with leaf and whole-plant traits in Arabidopsis thaliana. [PDF]
AoB Plants, 2015 The leaf economics spectrum (LES) describes strong relationships between multiple functional leaf traits that determine resource fluxes in vascular plants. Five models have been proposed to explain these patterns: two based on patterns of structural allocation, two on venation networks and one on resource allocation to cell walls and cell contents ...
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Leaf life span and the leaf economic spectrum in the context of whole plant architecture [PDF]
Journal of Ecology, 2014 SummaryThe leaf economics spectrum (LES) has been an organizing framework of plant functional ecology for the past decade. TheLESdescribes a set of trade‐offs among traits related to plant carbon balance. Species with a long leaf life span (LLS) invest additional material for leaf protection and structural support and consequently tend to have a lower ...
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