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Water and Nitrogen Use Strategies and Their Influencing Mechanisms in Typical Desert Shrubs of the Qaidam Basin, Qinghai–Tibet Plateau, China

Plants
Desert plants develop unique functional traits and resource utilization strategies under environmental stress, among which, water and nitrogen utilization strategies are the key resource utilization strategies for desert plants.
Yunhao Zhao, Hui Chen
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Plant functional groups modulate variation and covariation in leaf and seed traits across years

BMC Plant Biology
Leaf and seed traits are key determinants of plant growth and reproduction, mediating how plants respond to environmental change. Leaf and seed traits can also covary. For example, species with larger seeds tend to have larger leaves.
Changxing Fu, Gaohua Fan, Heqi Wang, Congwen Wang, Yingxin Huang, Paul L. Drake   +5 more
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Variations and trade-offs in leaf and culm functional traits among 77 woody bamboo species

BMC Plant Biology
Background Woody bamboos are the only diverse large perennial grasses in mesic-wet forests and are widely distributed in the understory and canopy. The functional trait variations and trade-offs in this taxon remain unclear due to woody bamboo syndromes (
Xiong Liu, Shixing Zhou, Junxi Hu, Xingcheng Zou, Liehua Tie, Ying Li, Xinglei Cui, Congde Huang, Jordi Sardans, Josep Peñuelas   +9 more
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Latitudinal and climate effects on key plant traits in Chinese forest ecosystems

Global Ecology and Conservation, 2019
s: A long-standing goal of ecology and forest management is to understand the environmental controls of resource utilization strategy of plants along geographical gradients.
Xing Zhang, Xin He, Jie Gao, Lei Wang
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Defining leaf traits linked to yield in short-rotation coppice Salix

, 2004
Short-rotation coppice Salix genotypes of differing biomass yields were studied over two growing seasons with the long-term aim of identifying traits definitive of high yield for the breeding of elite energy crops.
Robinson, K.M., Taylor, G., Robinson, K. M., Karp, A.   +3 more
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Disturbance has lasting effects on functional traits and diversity of grassland plant communities

, 2022
Background Localized disturbances within grasslands alter biological properties and may shift species composition. For example, rare species in established communities may become dominant in successional communities if they exhibit traits well-suited to ...
James F Cahill Jr, Emily M Holden, Ellen A Smith, Charlotte Brown   +3 more
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Leaf constitutive functional traits in Vitis vinifera varieties.

, 2015
Average values (± standard deviation) of leaf constitutive functional traits measured on two Vitis vinifera varieties (Aleatico and Trebbiano giallo) maintained in filtered air. For each parameter, the data were analyzed by Student’s t-test.
Clizia Gennai (571121), Marco Paolocci (783254), Alessandra Campanella (783253), Cristina Nali (783257), Massimo Muganu (783256), Elisa Pellegrini (783252), Giacomo Lorenzini (783258), Alice Trivellini (783255)   +7 more
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Function-valued traits in evolution [PDF]

, 2013
Many biological characteristics of evolutionary interest are not scalar variables but continuous functions. Given a dataset of function-valued traits generated by evolution, we develop a practical, statistical approach to infer ancestral function-valued ...
Hadjipantelis, PZ, Springate, David A., Knight, Christopher G., Jones, NS, Springate, DA, Knight, C. G. (Christopher G.), Moriarty, J, Jones, Nick S., Hadjipantelis, Pantelis-Zenon, Moriarty, John M., Hadjipantelis, Pantelis Z., Knight, CG, Moriarty, John   +12 more
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Coordination and plasticity in leaf anatomical traits of invasive and native vine species [PDF]

, 2014
Premise of the study: Plant invasiveness can be promoted by higher values of adaptive traits (e.g., photosynthetic capacity, biomass accumulation), greater plasticity and coordination of these traits, and by higher and positive relative influence of ...
Scharaschkin, Tanya, Osunkoya, O. O., Boyne, R., Osunkoya, Olusegun O., Boyne, Richard, Scharaschkin, T.   +5 more
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Toward improved drought tolerance in bioenergy crops: QTL for carbon isotope composition and stomatal conductance in Populus

, 2013
Dedicated non-food bioenergy crops like poplar are needed as sustainable, low-input feedstocks for renewable energy in a future drier climate, where they can be grown on marginal soils. Such plants should have a low water, carbon, and chemical footprint.
Morison, James I.L., Anne M. Rae, Maud Viger, Rodriguez‐Acosta, Maricela, Rae, Anne M., Maricela Rodriguez-Acosta, Gail Taylor, James I. L. Morison, Viger, Maud, Taylor, Gail   +9 more
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