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Optimization of leaf morphology in relation to leaf water status: A theory. [PDF]
, 2020 The leaf economic traits such as leaf area, maximum carbon assimilation rate, and venation are all correlated and related to water availability. Furthermore, leaves are often broad and large in humid areas and narrower in arid/semiarid and hot and cold ...
Ding, Junyan +2 more
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What is Natural about Natural Capital during the Anthropocene? [PDF]
, 2018 The concept of natural capital denotes a rich variety of natural processes, such as ecosystems, that produce economically valuable goods and services.
DesRoches, C. Tyler
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What do we know about parasitic plants and the leaf economic spectrum?
Journal of Plant Ecology, 2021 AbstractThe leaf economic spectrum (LES) quantifies correlations between key leaf traits across vascular plants and distills much of the variation in these traits to a single axis. The LES, remarkable in its near universality, has been extensively researched across a variety of contexts.
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Tree species differ in plant economic spectrum traits in the tropical dry forest of Mexico
PLOS ONE, 2023 In tropical dry forests, studies on wood anatomical traits have concentrated mainly on variations in vessel diameter and frequency. Recent research suggests that parenchyma and fibers also play an important role in water conduction and in xylem hydraulic safety.
Marco V. Alvarado, Teresa Terrazas
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Community leaf dry matter content predicts plant production in simple and diverse grassland
Ecosphere, 2022 Plant growth correlates with values of collinear (covarying) traits from the leaf economics spectrum. Environmental variation and differences in community composition may alter contributions of these traits to plant production and thereby limit the ...
H. Wayne Polley +2 more
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Plant-soil feedbacks and the resource economics spectrum [PDF]
, 2018 Recent work suggests that resource economic traits might help predict the strength and direction of plant-soil feedback interactions, both in natural systems and in agriculture. However, there are many competing hypotheses to explain the effects of plant resource economics on plant-soil feedbacks.
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BMC Plant Biology, 2021 Background Functional trait-based ecological research has been instrumental in advancing our understanding of environmental changes. It is still, however, unclear how the functional traits of urban plants respond to atmospheric particulate matter, and ...
Jiyou Zhu, Chengyang Xu
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Intraspecific trait variation can weaken interspecific trait correlations when assessing the whole‐plant economic spectrum [PDF]
Ecology and Evolution, 2017 AbstractThe worldwide plant economic spectrum hypothesis predicts that leaf, stem, and root traits are correlated across vascular plant species because carbon gain depends on leaves being adequately supplied with water and nutrients, and because construction of each organ involves a trade‐off between performance and persistence. Despite its logical and
Daniel C. Laughlin +5 more
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In Search of a Sustainable Global Agri-Food System [PDF]
, 2013 The potential to meet global food demand fully exists through global development of the high-technology (HT), high-intensity type of agriculture and food processing system prevailing in developed countries.
Gooday, Andrew +9 more
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Linking functional composition moments of the sub-Mediterranean ecotone with environmental drivers
Frontiers in Plant Science, 2023 IntroductionFunctional trait-based approaches are extensively applied to the study of mechanisms governing community assembly along environmental gradients. These approaches have been classically based on studying differences in mean values among species,
Sergio de Tomás Marín +5 more
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