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]
Front Plant Sci, 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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The Cortical Chlorenchyma Collaboration Gradient Dominates the Shoot Economics Space in <i>Larix principis-rupprechtii</i>. [PDF]
Life (Basel)Plant 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
Yu Y, Zhang H, Wang Z, Liu Z.
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Plant economics spectrum governs leaf nitrogen and phosphorus resorption in subtropical transitional forests. [PDF]
BMC Plant BiolBackground 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 ...
Ma B, Ge J, Zhao C, Xu W, Xu K, Xie Z.
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Xylem anatomy differentiation explains coordinated variation of economic and hydraulic traits in urban tree species. [PDF]
BMC Plant BiolBackground 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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A plant economics spectrum of litter decomposition among coexisting fern species in a sub-tropical forest [PDF]
Annals of Botany, 2020 Dunmei Lin +2 more
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Plant diversity within communities, not among them, stabilizes grassland productivity across spatial scales. [PDF]
Nat CommunEvidence shows that local functional trait composition and diversity along the fast–slow leaf economics spectrum can predict the temporal stability of community productivity in response to environmental changes.
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Hydraulic Safety Mechanisms Override Traditional Wood Economics in Hyper-Arid Environments. [PDF]
Plants (Basel)Environmental 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,
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Correction: Plant economics spectrum governs leaf nitrogen and phosphorus resorption in subtropical transitional forests. [PDF]
BMC Plant BiolMa B, Ge J, Zhao C, Xu W, Xu K, Xie Z.
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Leaf-level coordination principles propagate to the ecosystem scale
Nature Communications, 2023 Fundamental axes of variation in plant traits result from trade-offs between costs and benefits of resource-use strategies at the leaf scale. However, it is unclear whether similar trade-offs propagate to the ecosystem level.
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