The leaf economics spectrum drives soil nitrification in subtropical forests [PDF]
Journal Of Plant EcologyAbstract Nitrification is a crucial biogeochemical process that regulates soil inorganic nitrogen forms and triggers soil nitrogen losses. While the prevailing paradigm focuses on the role of functional microbial guilds that drive soil nitrification, a clear mechanistic link between tree species and soil nitrification remains to be ...
Shi, Xiuzhen +7 more
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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, Xiaoling Li, Zhengjian Yang
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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
Shuzhen Lv +5 more
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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.
Mengjiao Huang +5 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. +4 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 +43 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 +12 more
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Leaf trait-environment relationships in a subtropical broadleaved forest in South-East China. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 Although trait analyses have become more important in community ecology, trait-environment correlations have rarely been studied along successional gradients.
Wenzel Kröber +4 more
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The Economics Spectrum Drives Root Trait Strategies in Mediterranean Vegetation
Frontiers in Plant Science, 2021 Extensive research efforts are devoted to understand fine root trait variation and to confirm the existence of a belowground root economics spectrum (RES) from acquisitive to conservative root strategies that is analogous to the leaf economics spectrum ...
Enrique G. de la Riva +8 more
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Functional ecology of congeneric variation in the leaf economics spectrum [PDF]
New Phytologist, 2019 Summary Variation in resource availability can lead to phenotypic plasticity in the traits comprising the world‐wide leaf economics spectrum (LES), potentially impairing plant function and complicating the use of tabulated values for LES traits in ecological studies.
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