Patterns and drivers of community specific leaf area in China
Global Ecology and Conservation, 2022 Specific leaf area (SLA), an important functional trait, reflects the abilities of light capture and adaption to environments of plants. Earlier spatiotemporal changes in SLA at the species level have been widely studied.
Jie Gao, Keqing Wang, Xing Zhang
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Leaf nutrients, not specific leaf area, are consistent indicators of elevated nutrient inputs [PDF]
Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2019 Leaf traits are frequently measured in ecology to provide a 'common currency' for predicting how anthropogenic pressures impact ecosystem function. Here, we test whether leaf traits consistently respond to experimental treatments across 27 globally distributed grassland sites across 4 continents. We find that specific leaf area (leaf area per unit mass)
Jennifer Firn +42 more
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Specific leaf area predicts dryland litter decomposition via two mechanisms [PDF]
Journal of Ecology, 2017 Abstract Litter decomposition plays important roles in carbon and nutrient cycling. In dryland, both microbial decomposition and abiotic degradation (by UV light or other forces) drive variation in decomposition rates, but whether and how litter traits and position determine the balance between these processes is poorly understood.
Guofang Liu +6 more
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The relationship of leaf photosynthetic traits - V-cmax and J(max) - to leaf nitrogen, leaf phosphorus, and specific leaf area: a meta-analysis and modeling study [PDF]
Ecology and Evolution, 2014 Great uncertainty exists in the global exchange of carbon between the atmosphere and the terrestrial biosphere. An important source of this uncertainty lies in the dependency of photosynthesis on the maximum rate of carboxylation (Vcmax) and the maximum ...
Beckerman, A.P. +9 more
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Ecological Indicators, 2017 Abstract Based on a linear mixed-effect model, we propose here a non-destructive, rapid and reliable way for estimating leaf area, leaf mass and specific leaf area (SLA) at leaf scale for broadleaf species. For the construction of the model, the product of leaf length by width (LW) was the optimum variable to predict the leaf area of five deciduous ...
Zhili Liu +3 more
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Changes in specific leaf area of dominant plants in temperate grasslands along a 2500-km transect in northern China. [PDF]
Sci Rep, 2017 Specific leaf area (SLA) is a key trait with great ecological importance as it correlates with whole plant growth. We aimed to investigate how SLA varies with environmental factors at a geographical scale in temperate grasslands. We measured SLA and mass-
Liu M +5 more
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Intra- and interspecific trait variations reveal functional relationships between specific leaf area and soil niche within a subtropical forest. [PDF]
Ann Bot, 2018 He D +4 more
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Does greater specific leaf area plasticity help plants to maintain a high performance when shaded? [PDF]
Ann Bot, 2016 Liu Y +6 more
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Biogeosciences, 2021 . Mercury, Hg, is one of the most problematic metals from an environmental perspective. To assess the problems caused by Hg in the environment it is crucial to understand the processes of Hg biogeochemistry, but the exchange of Hg between the atmosphere ...
H. Pleijel +6 more
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New data of plant leaf traits from Central Europe
Data in Brief, 2022 Trait-based ecology is gaining ground nowadays on species-based ecology: the number of research and publication focusing on the ecological role of taxa instead of the species themselves increased significantly in the last two decades. One great advantage
Andrea McIntosh-Buday +15 more
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