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Relationships of leaf dark respiration to leaf nitrogen, specific leaf area and leaf life-span: a test across biomes and functional groups.
Peter B. Reich,M. B. Walters,David S. Ellsworth,James M. Vose,John C. Volin,Charles A. Gresham,William D. Bowman +6 more
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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.Abstract:
Based on prior evidence of coordinated multiple leaf trait scaling, we hypothesized that variation among species in leaf dark respiration rate (Rd) should scale with variation in traits such as leaf nitrogen (N), leaf life-span, specific leaf area (SLA), and net photosynthetic capacity (/4max)- However, it is not known whether such scaling, if it exists, is similar among disparate biomes and plant functional types. We tested this idea by examining the interspecific relationships between Rd measured at a standard temperature and leaf life-span, N, SLA and ^max for 69 species from four functional groups (forbs, broad-leafed trees and shrubs, and needle-leafed coni- fers) in six biomes traversing the Americas: alpine tun- dra/subalpine forest, was positively related to area-based leaf N within functional groups and for all species pooled, but not when comparing among species within any site. At all sites, mass-based Rd (Rd.mass) de- creased sharply with increasing leaf life-span and was positively related to SLA and mass-based Amax and leafread more
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The worldwide leaf economics spectrum
Ian J. Wright,Peter B. Reich,Mark Westoby,David D. Ackerly,Zdravko Baruch,Frans Bongers,Jeannine Cavender-Bares,Terry Chapin,Johannes H. C. Cornelissen,M. Diemer,Jaume Flexas,Eric Garnier,Philip K. Groom,Javier Gulías,Kouki Hikosaka,Byron B. Lamont,Tali D. Lee,William G. Lee,Christopher H. Lusk,Jeremy J. Midgley,Marie-Laure Navas,Ülo Niinemets,Jacek Oleksyn,Jacek Oleksyn,Noriyuki Osada,Hendrik Poorter,Pieter Poot,Lynda D. Prior,Vladimir I. Pyankov,Catherine Roumet,Sean C. Thomas,Mark G. Tjoelker,Erik J. Veneklaas,Rafael Villar +33 more
TL;DR: Reliable quantification of the leaf economics spectrum and its interaction with climate will prove valuable for modelling nutrient fluxes and vegetation boundaries under changing land-use and climate.
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The evolution of plant functional variation: traits, spectra, and strategies
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TL;DR: Patterns of functional trait variation and trait correlations within and among habitats in relation to several environmental and trade‐off axes are described and whether such patterns reflect natural selection and can be considered plant strategies are asked.
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Thermal acclimation and the dynamic response of plant respiration to temperature
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TL;DR: The underlying mechanisms responsible for the dynamic response of plant respiration to short and long-term temperature changes are discussed, including shifts in the control exerted by maximum enzyme activity at low temperature and substrate limitations at high temperature.
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Strategy shifts in leaf physiology, structure and nutrient content between species of high- and low-rainfall and high- and low-nutrient habitats
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