James M. Vose

TL;DR: Testing for biome differences in the slope and intercept of interspecific relationships among leaf traits for more than 100 species in six distinct biomes of the Americas suggests a predictable set of scaling relationships among key leaf morphological, chemical, and metabolic traits that are replicated globally among terrestrial ecosystems regardless of biome or vegetation type.

TL;DR: The relationships between Rd and leaf traits observed in this study support the idea of a global set of predictable interrelationships between key leaf morphological, chemical and metabolic traits.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors applied a simplified hydrological model across the diverse physiographic region to estimate the potential magnitude of annual water yield response to forestation and found that the average water yield reduction may vary from about 50mm/yr (50%) in the semi-arid Loess Plateau region in northern China to about 300 mm/yr in the tropical southern region.

TL;DR: In this article, the relationship between aboveground net primary production (ANPP) and soil microbial biomass in late-successi onal ecosystems dis- tributed along a continent-wide gradient in North America was quantified.

TL;DR: Long-term changes (20 years) in water yield, the storm hydrograph, stream inorganic chemistry, and sediment yield were analyzed for a 59 ha mixed hardwood covered catchment (Watershed 7) in the southern Appalachian mountains (USA) following clearcutting and cable logging.