Shifts in trait‐combinations along rainfall and phosphorus gradients

By Carlos Roberto Fonseca, J. Overton, B. Collins, M. Westoby. 2000

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Evidence for a ‘plant community economics spectrum’ driven by nutrient and water limitations in a Mediterranean rangeland of southern France (2012, background): “…way of analysing the relationships between resources and plant strategies is to compare resource-rich versus resource-limited environments (e.g. Fonseca et al. 2000; Wright & Westoby 2001; Quétier, Thébault & Lavorel 2007; Laliberté et al. 2012) for a limited (one or two) number of resources…”
Community Assembly, Niche Conservatism, and Adaptive Evolution in Changing Environments (2003, background): “For example, leaf size commonly increases with water availability, and this pattern may be observed among individuals (Sultan and Bazzaz 1993), species (Cunningham et al. 1999), and community assemblages (Dolph and Dilcher 1980; Fonseca et al. 2000).”
A trait-based approach to community assembly: partitioning of species trait values into within- and among-community components. (2007, unknown): “For example, previous studies have found strong correlations of leaf size and SLA among species distributed along gradients of precipitation and/or nutrients (e.g. Fonseca et al. 2000; Ackerly et al. 2002).”
Partitioning of functional diversity reveals the scale and extent of trait convergence and divergence (2009, background): “This suggests that differences in traits among species within a habitat can be as great as trait differences across the full range of an environmental gradient (Fonseca et al. 2000), probably resulting in a modest shift in single plant trait values along environmental gradients (Wright et al.”
High leaf mass per area of related species assemblages may reflect low rainfall and carbon isotope discrimination rather than low phosphorus and nitrogen concentrations (2002, methodology): “© 2002 British Ecological Society, Functional Ecology, 16, 403–412 much support in the field and experimentally (Connor & Doley 1981; Fonseca et al. 2000; Groom & Lamont 1997; Oertli, Lips & Agami 1990; Poole & Miller 1975; Salleo, Nardini & Lo Gullo 1997; Specht & Specht 1989).”
Leaf traits as indicators of resource-use strategy in floras with succulent species (2002, background): “(Schulze, 1982; Font Quer, 1993). Tender-leafed species lack both of these specializations. However, there are no precise, quantitative definitions of the three types in the literature. Turner (1994) and Fonseca et al .”
Basin-wide variations in foliar properties of Amazonian forest: phylogeny, soils and climate. (2009, background): “, 2004) and regional (Fonseca et al., 2000; Wright et al., 2001) datasets have highlighted that a large portion of the variation observed in MA, [N] and [P] is found between species within a common environment.”
Relationships between plant traits and climate in the Mediterranean region: A pollen data analysis (2004, background): “At the species level, however, leaf size varies widely at any given level of leaf sclerophylly, and vice versa (Ackerly & Reich 1999; Fonseca et al. 2000; Ackerly et al. 2002).”
Modulation of leaf economic traits and trait relationships by climate (2005, background): “For example, plants adapted to low rainfall tend to have thick, leathery leaves (Schimper, 1903; Maximov, 1929; Turner, 1994; Fonseca et al ., 2000) and a high concentration of nitrogen per unit leaf area (Cunningham et al ., 1999; Wright et al ., 2001).”
Cross‐species patterns in the coordination between leaf and stem traits, and their implications for plant hydraulics (2006, background): “However, 10 3 -fold variation in leaf size is commonly seen among sets of co-occurring species (Fonseca et al. 2000), suggesting that other types of costs and benefits must also vary with leaf size.”
Functional Matrix: A Conceptual Framework for Predicting Multiple Plant Effects on Ecosystem Processes (2003, background): “Plant traits respond independently to environmental variables (Fonseca et al. 2000, Wright & Westoby 1999), and species differ in the responses of their traits to shifts in the environment (Hobbie & Gough 2002, Shierlaw & Alston 1984).”
Leaf-size divergence along rainfall and soil-nutrient gradients: Is the method of size reduction common among clades? (2003, methodology): “Some suggestions, for example that a smaller leaf size is favoured because of the slower growth of plants on infertile soils (Rodriguez et al . 1998), can equally be interpreted as favouring smaller investment in total leaf area, as opposed to leaf size per se . Despite this, smaller leaf size at lo”