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Leaf traits within communities: Context may affect the mapping of traits to function [PDF]

Ecology, 2013
The leaf economics spectrum (LES) has revolutionized the way many ecologists think about quantifying plant ecological trade‐offs. In particular, the LES has connected a clear functional trade‐off (long‐lived leaves with slow carbon capture vs. short‐lived leaves with fast carbon capture) to a handful of easily measured leaf traits.
Funk, Jennifer L., Cornwell, William K.
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Can functional leaf traits be used for monitoring wetland restoration? A comparison between commonly used monitoring metrics and functional leaf traits

Ecological Indicators, 2022
Monitoring is essential to restoration, but the standard metrics used to monitor wetland restoration do not explicitly account for function in plant communities. Functional traits may be a useful addition to the wetland monitoring toolkit, because they can represent aspects of ecosystem functioning that standard metrics may not.
Brian Charles, Marissa H. Chase, Geoffrey Pociask, Rabin Bhattarai, Jeffrey W. Matthews   +4 more
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Coordination of leaf functional traits under climatic warming in an arid ecosystem. [PDF]

BMC Plant Biol, 2022
Abstract Background Climatic warming is increasing regionally and globally, and results concerning warming and its consequent drought impacts have been reported extensively. However, due to a lack of quantitative analysis of warming severities, it is still unclear how warming and warming-induced drought influence leaf ...
Yu H, Chen Y, Zhou G, Xu Z.
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Functional Mapping of Genes Modulating Plant Shade Avoidance Using Leaf Traits

Plants, 2023
Shade avoidance syndrome (SAS) refers to a set of plant responses that increases light capture in dense stands. This process is crucial for plants in natural and agricultural environments as they compete for resources and avoid suboptimal conditions. Although the molecular, biochemical, and physiological mechanisms underlying the SAS response have been
Han Zhang, Yige Cao, Zijian Wang, Meixia Ye, Rongling Wu   +4 more
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The effect of experimental warming on leaf functional traits, leaf structure and leaf biochemistry in Arabidopsis thaliana [PDF]

BMC Plant Biology, 2011
Abstract Background The leaf is an important plant organ, and how it will respond to future global warming is a question that remains unanswered. The effects of experimental warming on leaf photosynthesis and respiration acclimation has been well studied so far, but relatively little information exists on the ...
Jiang Xiao-Xue, Wang Yang, Jiang Ke-Zhen, Wang Jing, Wang Li, Jin Biao, Ni Cheng-Yang, Wang Yu-Long, Teng Nian-Jun   +8 more
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Leaf metabolic traits reveal hidden dimensions of plant form and function

Science Advances, 2023
The metabolome is the biochemical basis of plant form and function, but we know little about its macroecological variation across the plant kingdom. Here, we used the plant functional trait concept to interpret leaf metabolome variation among 457 tropical and 339 temperate plant species.
Walker, Tom W N, Schrodt, Franziska, Allard, Pierre-Marie, Defossez, Emmanuel, Jassey, Vincent E J, Schuman, Meredith Christine, Alexander, Jake M, Baines, Oliver, Baldy, Virginie, Bardgett, Richard D, Capdevila, Pol, Coley, Phyllis D, van Dam, Nicole M, David, Bruno, Descombes, Patrice, Endara, María-José, Fernandez, Catherine, Forrister, Dale, Gargallo-Garriga, Albert, Glauser, Gaëtan, Marr, Sue, Neumann, Steffen, Pellissier, Loïc, Peters, Kristian, Rasmann, Sergio, Roessner, Ute, Salguero-Gómez, Roberto, Sardans, Jordi, Weckwerth, Wolfram, Wolfender, Jean-Luc, Peñuelas, Josep   +30 more
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Leaf reflectance and functional traits as environmental indicators of urban dust deposition [PDF]

BMC Plant Biology, 2021
Abstract Background How to quickly predict and evaluate urban dust deposition is the key to the control of urban atmospheric environment. Here, we focus on changes of plant reflectance and plant functional traits due to dust deposition, and develop a prediction model of dust deposition based on these traits.
Jiyou Zhu, Jingliang Xu, Yujuan Cao, Jing Fu, Benling Li, Guangpeng Sun, Xinna Zhang, Chengyang Xu   +7 more
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Functional leaf traits of understory species: strategies to different disturbance severities [PDF]

Brazilian Journal of Biology, 2015
The specific leaf area (SLA) has been related to environmental disturbances, showing a positive correlation between the disturbances intensities and SLA in a plant community. These studies, however, assessed the responses of plant community as a whole, neglecting species attributes, such as the position in the vertical stratum of forests.
Prado Júnior, J., Schiavini, I., Vale, V., Lopes, S., Arantes, C., Oliveira, AP.   +5 more
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Seasonal variation of leaf thickness: An overlooked component of functional trait variability

Plant Biology, 2022
Abstract The dry and wet seasons in the Neotropics have strong effects on soil water and nutrient availability, as well as on forest dynamics. Despite these major effects on forest ecology, little is known on how leaf traits vary throughout the seasons in tropical rainforest trees.
Schmitt, S., Trueba, S., Coste, S., Ducouret, É., Tysklind, Niklas, Heuertz, M., Bonal, D., Burban, B., Hérault, B., Derroire, Géraldine   +9 more
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Leaf hydraulic conductance in relation to anatomical and functional traits during Populus tremula leaf ontogeny [PDF]

Tree Physiology, 2005
Leaf hydraulic conductance (K(leaf)) and several characteristics of hydraulic architecture and physiology were measured during the first 10 weeks of leaf ontogeny in Populus tremula L. saplings growing under control, mild water deficit or elevated temperature conditions. During the initial 3 weeks of leaf ontogeny, most measured characteristics rapidly
Krõõt, Aasamaa, Ulo, Niinemets, Anu, Sõber   +2 more
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