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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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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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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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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Incorporating pressure–volume traits into the leaf economics spectrum
Ecology Letters, 2023 Abstract In recent years, attempts have been made in linking pressure–volume parameters and the leaf economics spectrum to expand our knowledge of the interrelationships among leaf traits. We provide theoretical and empirical evidence for the coordination of the turgor loss point and associated traits with net CO
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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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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.
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