Soil and climatic drivers of plant SLA (specific leaf area)
Global Ecology and Conservation, 2019 Global quantification of the relationship between plant SLA (specific leaf area) and climate and soil factors, reflects the trade-off between plant growth and environment.
Hede Gong, Jie Gao
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Intraspecific Variability in Leaf Functional Traits Reveals Divergent Resource-Use Strategies and Geographic Adaptation in Mediterranean Olive Cultivars from Worldwide Olive Germplasm Bank of Marrakech [PDF]
PlantsUnderstanding intraspecific functional trait variability (ITV) is crucial for elucidating plant functional strategies under environmental change. This study investigates the functional responses of 129 Mediterranean olive (Olea europaea L.) cultivars ...
Jalal Kassout +5 more
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Leaf Trait Divergence and Elevational Adaptation in Endangered Fagus hayatae: Conservation Insights for an East Asian Paleoendemic [PDF]
Ecology and EvolutionFagus hayatae Palib. ex Hayata, an endangered East Asian paleoendemic species, dominates in Sichuan's Micang Mountain while persisting in fragmented populations across Taiwan and mainland China. Nevertheless, niche differentiation and adaptive strategies
Ting Pan +5 more
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Functional Trait Variation and Reverse Phenology in the Tropical Dry Forest Species Bonellia nervosa [PDF]
PlantsBonellia nervosa is an understory tree with reverse phenology in tropical dry forests (TDFs), where seasonal water and temperature stress typically shape plant phenology and trait expression. This species is heliophytic and phreatophytic, relying on high
Ciara Duff +2 more
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The use of functional plant leaves traits in the production ecosystem services assessment of grassland communities [PDF]
Caspian Journal of Environmental Sciences, 2021 The article investigates the experience of the ecosystem production services evaluation of grassland communities using the plant functional traits, leaf area, specific leaf area, and community weighted average specific leaf area (CWM SLA).
Sergeevich Sautkin +2 more
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Leaf Traits of Trees in Tropical Dry Evergreen Forests of Peninsular India
Ecologies, 2021 A plant functional trait study was conducted to know the existing relationship between important leaf traits namely, specific leaf area (SLA), leaf dry matter content (LDMC), and leaf life span (LL) in tropical dry evergreen forest (TDEFs) of Peninsular ...
Muthulingam Udayakumar, Thangavel Sekar
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Determining relevant traits for selecting landrace accessions of Phaseolus lunatus L. for insect resistance [PDF]
PeerJ, 2021 Plant-insect interactions are a determining factor for sustainable crop production. Although plants can resist or tolerate herbivorous insects to varying degrees, even with the use of pesticides, insects can reduce plant net productivity by as much as 20%
Roberto Rafael Ruiz-Santiago +5 more
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Frontiers in Plant Science, 2021 Structural and nutrient traits of a leaf are important for understanding plant ecological strategies (e.g., drought avoidance). We studied the specific leaf area (SLA), leaf carbon content (LCC), leaf nitrogen content (LNC), leaf phosphorous content (LPC)
Teresa Navarro, Noelia Hidalgo-Triana
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Stability of soil plant analytical development (SPAD) chlorophyll meter reading (SCMR) and specific leaf area (SLA) and their association across varying soil moisture stress conditions in groundnut (Arachis hypogaea L.) [PDF]
Euphytica, 2007 The complex nature of physiological traits associated with drought tolerance and the difficulties associated with their measurements in segregating populations and large number of genotypes inhibited their use in the past in developing water-use efficient genotypes in breeding programmes.
Nigam, S N, Aruna, R
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, 2023 Abstract This protocol outlines the collection procedure of eucalypt leaves for analysis of various plant traits and the measurement of important water and physical traits. Fuel moisture content, dry matter content, equivalent water thickness, and specific leaf area provide insights into the flammability and biomass available for burning and ...
Nicolas Younes, Sophia Cain
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