Linking Aboveground Traits to Root Traits and Local Environment: Implications of the Plant Economics Spectrum [PDF]
Frontiers in Plant Science, 2019 The plant economics spectrum proposes that ecological traits are functionally coordinated and adapt along environmental gradients. However, empirical evidence is mixed about whether aboveground and root traits are consistently linked and which ...
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Rethinking the Plant Economics Spectrum for Annuals: A Multi-Species Study [PDF]
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
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Time for a Plant Structural Economics Spectrum [PDF]
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 ...
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Plant economics spectrum governs leaf nitrogen and phosphorus resorption in subtropical transitional forests [PDF]
BMC Plant BiologyBackground Leaf nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) resorption is a fundamental adaptation strategy for plant nutrient conservation. However, the relative roles that environmental factors and plant functional traits play in regulating N and P resorption ...
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The Cortical Chlorenchyma Collaboration Gradient Dominates the Shoot Economics Space in Larix principis-rupprechtii [PDF]
LifePlant economics is based on carbon and nutrients rather than money. While leaf strategies aboveground are well characterized along an economic spectrum from “fast-growing and short-lived” to “slow and conservative,” economic models defined by aboveground
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Ectomycorrhizal Fungal Communities and Their Functional Traits Mediate Plant–Soil Interactions in Trace Element Contaminated Soils [PDF]
Frontiers in Plant Science, 2018 There is an increasing consensus that microbial communities have an important role in mediating ecosystem processes. Trait-based ecology predicts that the impact of the microbial communities on ecosystem functions will be mediated by the expression of ...
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Xylem anatomy differentiation explains coordinated variation of economic and hydraulic traits in urban tree species [PDF]
BMC Plant BiologyBackground Urban drought increasingly challenges the survival and performance of urban forests, consequently undermining their sustainability and productivity. Hydraulic-economic trait trade-offs are primary determinants of species drought tolerance, yet
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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 [PDF]
PlantsFine 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 ...
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Hydraulic Safety Mechanisms Override Traditional Wood Economics in Hyper-Arid Environments [PDF]
PlantsEnvironmental stress drives plant communities toward conservative ecological strategies through increased wood density (WD) within the Wood Economics Spectrum (WES). However, hyper-arid regions like the Coastal Atacama Desert (CAD) challenge this pattern,
Rodrigo S. Rios +3 more
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Evaluating fungal pathogen resistance across the leaf economics spectrum using the generalist fungus Sclerotinia sclerotiorum [PDF]
Scientific ReportsLeaf traits vary widely among plant species, correlating with leaf economics and growth-defense trade-offs. However, the relationship between trait variation and pathogen resistance remains unexplored.
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