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A second dimension to the leaf economics spectrum predicts edaphic habitat association in a tropical forest. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2010 Strong patterns of habitat association are frequent among tropical forest trees and contribute to the maintenance of biodiversity. The relation of edaphic differentiation to tradeoffs among leaf functional traits is less clear, but may provide insights ...
Jennifer L Baltzer, Sean C Thomas
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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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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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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-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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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.
Wenli Ji +3 more
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Applied Sciences, 2021 Studies on the influence of parasitism on plants based on hyperspectral analysis have not been reported so far. To fully understand the variation characteristics and laws of leaf reflectance spectrum and functional traits after the urban plant ...
Jiyou Zhu +4 more
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Nature Communications, 2020 FLOWERING LOCUS M (FLM) is known as a repressor of Arabidopsis flowering. Here, the authors show that a single intronic substitution of FLM modulates leaf color and plant growth strategy along the leaf economics spectrum, as well as plays a role in plant
Mathieu Hanemian +7 more
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