Contrasting effects of plant inter‐ and intraspecific variation on community‐level trait measures along an environmental gradient
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...On the other hand, several studies have shown that trait shifts mediated by species turnover play a strong structuring role among communities located along broad environmental gradients (Ackerly & Cornwell 2007; Kichenin et al. 2013)....
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...Opposite contributions of species turnover and intraspecific variability to community mean LNC have been recently observed along an elevation gradient (Kichenin et al. 2013)....
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...This between-species idiosyncratic pattern corroborates previous studies exploring trait–environment relationships (Albert et al. 2010; Kichenin et al. 2013)....
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...One possibility is the ‘nutrient luxury consumption’ hypothesis (Chapin 1980; van Wijk et al. 2003) that postulates a positive selection for plant species with active nutrient retention strategies in conditions of increasing nutrient stress. Interestingly, across a different gradient of soil N availability, P erez-Ramos et al. (2012)...
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...One possibility is the ‘nutrient luxury consumption’ hypothesis (Chapin 1980; van Wijk et al. 2003) that postulates a positive selection for plant species with active nutrient retention strategies in conditions of increasing nutrient stress....
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...unit in trait-based ecology (Reich et al. 1999; Garnier et al. 2001; McGill et al. 2006)....
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...These analyses generally assume that differences in trait values are much larger among than within species (Reich et al. 1999; Garnier et al. 2001; McGill et al. 2006), and therefore that species can be reasonably characterized by their mean trait values....
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...For each species, all leaves were pooled within plots and measured for average leaf area (LA, mm), specific leaf area (SLA, mm mg ) and leaf dry matter content (LDMC, mg g ) following Cornelissen et al. (2003). Leaf nitrogen content (LNC, %) and leaf phosphorus content (LPC, %) were measured on ground homogenized subsamples using Kjeldahl analysis....
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