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BMC Plant Biology, 2021 Background Functional trait-based ecological research has been instrumental in advancing our understanding of environmental changes. It is still, however, unclear how the functional traits of urban plants respond to atmospheric particulate matter, and ...
Jiyou Zhu, Chengyang Xu
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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 ...
Shipley, Bill +3 more
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Mercury Accumulation is Related to the Leaf Economics Spectrum [PDF]
Water, Air, & Soil PollutionAbstract Mercury (Hg) is a highly toxic metal with a complex biogeochemistry and the principles governing Hg uptake in different types of vegetation represent a knowledge gap. By combining published information from three sources with new data we investigated the rate of Hg accumulation in a wide range of leaf types from broadleaved ...
Håkan Pleijel +3 more
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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 ...
Lawren, Sack +6 more
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Acta Silvae et Ligni, 2022 Using Slovenian forest flora as an example, we investigated four plant functional traits: specific leaf area (SLP), leaf dry matter content (VSS), plant height (VIŠ) and seed/spore mass (MAS).
Janez Kermavnar +3 more
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Overwintering evergreen oaks reverse typical relationships between leaf traits in a species spectrum [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2016 The leaf economics spectrum has given us a fundamental understanding of the species variations in leaf variables. Across plant species, tight correlations among leaf mass per area (LMA), mass-based nitrogen (Nm) and photosynthetic rate (Am) and leaf ...
Hisanori Harayama +2 more
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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
Adam R. Martin +5 more
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Adaptation strategies of leaf traits and leaf economic spectrum of two urban garden plants in China
BMC Plant Biology, 2023 Abstract Background Previous studies of the relationships between traits have focused on the natural growth conditions of wild plants. Urban garden plants exhibit some differences in plant traits due to environmental interference.
Liying Xu +6 more
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Time for a Plant Structural Economics Spectrum
Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 2019 We argue that tree and crown structural diversity can and should be integrated in the whole-plant economics spectrum. Ecologists have found that certain functional trait combinations have been more viable than others during evolution, generating a trait ...
Hans Verbeeck +7 more
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Ecological Indicators, 2021 Water use efficiency is among the most important eco-physiological strategies for species adaptation to water-limiting habitats. However, understanding of how co-occurring species adopt diverse water use strategies to cope with water- and resource ...
Jing Wang +3 more
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