Editorial: Leaf functional traits: Ecological and evolutionary implications. [PDF]
Front Plant Sci, 2023 Niklas KJ +4 more
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Leaf functional traits and pathogens: Linking coffee leaf rust with intraspecific trait variation in diversified agroecosystems. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2023 Research has demonstrated that intraspecific functional trait variation underpins plant responses to environmental variability. However, few studies have evaluated how trait variation shifts in response to plant pathogens, even though pathogens are a major driver of plant demography and diversity, and despite evidence of plants expressing distinct ...
Gagliardi S +5 more
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Intraspecific variations in leaf functional traits of Cunninghamia lanceolata provenances. [PDF]
BMC Plant Biol, 2023 Abstract Background Studies on intra-specific variability in leaf functional traits is important to evaluate adaptation of the species to predicted climate change, and to develop long-term conservation strategy.
Xu R +5 more
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Relating Stomatal Conductance to Leaf Functional Traits [PDF]
Journal of Visualized Experiments, 2015 Leaf functional traits are important because they reflect physiological functions, such as transpiration and carbon assimilation. In particular, morphological leaf traits have the potential to summarize plants strategies in terms of water use efficiency, growth pattern and nutrient use.
Kröber, Wenzel +3 more
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Productive leaf functional traits of Chinese savanna species [PDF]
Plant Ecology, 2012 The river valleys in Southwest China are characterized by a dry–hot climate and relatively rich soils, and host valley-type savannas that are dominated by deciduous species. However, little is known about the ecological adaptations of Chinese savanna plants to the local environments.
Zhang, J.L., Poorter, L., Cao, K.F.
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Predicting leaf traits across functional groups using reflectance spectroscopy
New Phytologist, 2022 Summary Plant ecologists use functional traits to describe how plants respond to and influence their environment. Reflectance spectroscopy can provide rapid, non‐destructive estimates of leaf traits, but it remains unclear whether general trait‐spectra models can ...
Shan Kothari +14 more
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Functional traits and drought strategy predict leaf thermal tolerance
Conservation Physiology, 2023 ABSTRACT Heat stress imposes an important physiological constraint on native plant species—one that will only worsen with human-caused climate change. Indeed, rising temperatures have already contributed to large-scale plant mortality events across the globe.
Justin M Valliere +2 more
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Linking functional traits to multiscale statistics of leaf venation networks [PDF]
New Phytologist, 2020 Summary Leaf venation networks evolved along several functional axes, including resource transport, damage resistance, mechanical strength, and construction cost. Because functions may depend on architectural features at different scales, network architecture may vary across spatial scales to satisfy functional tradeoffs.
Benjamin Blonder +9 more
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Consistency of species ranking based on functional leaf traits [PDF]
New Phytologist, 2001 • Specific leaf area (leaf area to dry mass ratio), leaf dry matter content (leaf dry mass to saturated fresh mass ratio) and leaf nitrogen concentration (LNC) have been proposed as indicators of plant resource use in data bases of plant functional traits.
E, Garnier +7 more
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Effects of ontogenetic stage and leaf age on leaf functional traits and the relationships between traits in Pinus koraiensis [PDF]
Journal of Forestry Research, 2021 AbstractInvestigating the effects of ontogenetic stage and leaf age on leaf traits is important for understanding the utilization and distribution of resources in the process of plant growth. However, few studies have been conducted to show how traits and trait-trait relationships change across a range of ontogenetic stage and leaf age for evergreen ...
Meng Ji, Guangze Jin, Zhili Liu
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