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Fine Root Traits across Different Root Orders and Their Associations with Leaf Traits in 15 Co-Occurring Plant Species from the Desert–Oasis Transition Zone in the Hexi Corridor, Gansu Province, China

Plants
Fine root traits embody trade-offs between resource acquisition and conservation in plants. Yet, the differentiation of these traits across root orders, the existence of a root economics spectrum (RES) spanning these orders, and their linkage with leaf ...
Yiming Chen, Jing Ma, Hongyong Wang, Tingting Xie, Quangang Li, Lishan Shan   +5 more
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Shoot growth of woody trees and shrubs is predicted by maximum plant height and associated traits

, 2017
1. The rate of elongation and thickening of individual branches (shoots) varies across plant species. This variation is important for the outcome of competition and other plant-plant interactions.
Alicia M. Cook (4377190), Andrea E. A. Stephens (6211565), Andrea E.A. Stephens (4377184), Chris J. Blackman (3266928), Claire A. Laws (4377193), Don W. Butler (2924163), Julia Cooke (645394), Julieta A. Rosell (2924835), Mark Westoby (728960), Sean M. Gleason (2924160), Stephanie A. Stuart (4377178), Wade C. Tozer (4377187), Yvonne Chang (4377181)   +12 more
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Phenotypic plasticity and the leaf economics spectrum: plasticity is positively associated with specific leaf area

Oikos, 2022
Phenotypic plasticity is a key mechanism by which plants respond to changing or heterogeneous conditions. Efforts to predict phenotypic plasticity across plant species have mainly focused on environmental variability or abiotic conditions, i.e. site characteristics.
Gisela C. Stotz, Cristian Salgado‐Luarte, Víctor M. Escobedo, Fernando Valladares, Ernesto Gianoli   +4 more
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Links between leaf anatomy and leaf mass per area of herbaceous species across slope aspects in an eastern Tibetan subalpine meadow

Ecology and Evolution, 2022
Leaf anatomy varies with abiotic factors and is an important trait for understanding plant adaptive responses to environmental conditions. Leaf mass per area (LMA) is a key morphological trait and is related to leaf performance, such as light‐saturated ...
Xin’e Li, Xin Zhao, Yuki Tsujii, Yueqi Ma, Renyi Zhang, Cheng Qian, Zixi Wang, Feilong Geng, Shixuan Jin   +8 more
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Substantial variation of the two‐dimensional spectrum of senescent leaf in subalpine forest along elevational gradients

Ecosphere
Leaf senescence have shed light on its contribution to the recovery of nutrients and signaling of the transition from the active to the dormant stage in winter.
Chunyan Long, Kaikui Chang, Na Guan, Xiaoli Cheng   +3 more
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Seed production of co-occurring species: Regenerative strategies, plant economic spectrum or architectural constraints?

Basic and Applied Ecology, 2022
Although plant clonality is an important reproductive strategy complementing seed reproduction, their interrelationship is seldom studied. We evaluated how plant clonality, together with plant economics spectrum and architectural constraints, affect the ...
Ágnes-Júlia Albert, Martin Bitomský, Lars Götzenberger, Ondřej Mudrák, Jitka Klimešová   +4 more
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Climate Change Agricultural Comparative Advantage and the US Trade Balance

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Current science indicates that warming and elevated atmospheric CO2 will have ambiguous results for crop productivity depending on crop type and geographic location, whereas increased heat stress makes livestock and human labor less productive.
Elizabeth A. Fraysse, Thomas W. Hertel, Roman Keeney   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Rethinking the Plant Economics Spectrum for Annuals: A Multi-Species Study

Frontiers in Plant Science, 2021
The plant economics spectrum hypothesizes a correlation among resource-use related traits along one single axis, which determines species’ growth rates and their ecological filtering along resource gradients. This concept has been mostly investigated and
Susanne Kurze, Bettina M. J. Engelbrecht, Bettina M. J. Engelbrecht, Mark C. Bilton, Mark C. Bilton, Katja Tielbörger, Leonor Álvarez-Cansino   +6 more
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Inherent variation of functional traits in winter and summer leaves of Mediterranean seasonal dimorphic species. Evidence of a 'within leaf cohort' spectrum [PDF]

, 2018
The covariation pattern among leaf functional traits involved in resource acquisition has been successfully provided by the leaf economic spectrum (LES).
Puglielli, Giacomo, Varone, Laura
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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 ...
Erika J. Edwards, David S. Chatelet, Lawren Sack, Michael J. Donoghue   +3 more
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