Plastic Phenotypic Response to Light of 16 Congeneric Shrubs From a Panamanian Rainforest

By F. Valladares, Stephen J. Wright, E. Lasso, K. Kitajima, R. W. Pearcy. 2000

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Subfields: Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Genetic differentiation and plasticity interact along temperature and precipitation gradients to determine plant performance under climate change (2017, methodology): “…plasticity of the plants from the different environments, we thus calculated the phenotypic plasticity index as the difference between the maximum and minimum value of the trait for each clone (out of the four values across the growth chambers) divided by the maximum value (Valladares et al. 2000).”
Growth, biomass allocation, morphology, and photosynthesis of invasive Eupatoriumadenophorum and its native congeners grown at four irradiances (2009, background): “Valladares et al. (2000) calculated plasticity index as the ratio of the difference between the maximum and the minimum mean values of each variable among irradiance treatments to the maximum mean value.”
Anatomical basis of the change in leaf mass per area and nitrogen investment with relative irradiance within the canopy of eight temperate tree species (2004, result): “These results support the hypothesis of higher plasticity of shade-intolerant species when facing an increase in light availability (Björkman, 1981; Valladares et al., 2000).”
Plasticity of morphological and physiological traits in response to different levels of irradiance in seedlings of silver fir (Abies alba Mill) (2003, background): “Other authors observed a large variability in plasticity depending on the observed trait with no real connection to shade tolerance ( Valladares et al. 2000 ).”
Leaf demography and phenology in Amazonian rain forest : a census of 40,000 leaves of 23 tree species (2004, background): “However, Valladares et al. (2000) found only a small difference in leaf life span between six gap-demanding and 10 shade-tolerant Psychotria shrubs growing in their native habitats (mean of 1.25 vs. 1.5 yr, respectively), in contrast with much larger variation in leaf life span among species within…”
Multispecies comparison reveals that invasive and native plants differ in their traits but not in their plasticity (2011, background): “Phenotypic plasticity, measured as the ability to express different phenotypes in different environments (Sultan 1995; Valladares et al. 2000; Pigliucci 2001; West-Eberhard 2003), has been widely predicted to be a key trait for explaining why exotic invasive species are so successful in their…”
Differences in plasticity between invasive and native plants from a low resource environment (2008, background): “In a series of studies, Valladares et al. (2000, 2002) found that shade-tolerant species have low physiological plasticity and high morphological plasticity, while the reverse is true for shade-intolerant species.”
Phenotypic plasticity blurs ecotypic divergence in the response of Quercus coccifera and Pinus halepensis to water stress (2008, background): “…found in other studies of Mediterranean oaks in response to light and nutrients (Balaguer et al. 2001; Castro-Diez et al. 2006; Gratani et al. 2003; Valladares et al. 2000a), was remarkably lower than that of evergreen tropical rainforest shrubs (Valladares et al. 2000b), revealing large…”
Light Heterogeneity and Plants: from Ecophysiology to Species Coexistence and Biodiversity (2003, background): “Since identical genotypes are often difficult to identify and compare, phenotypic plasticity is frequently taken as the variability among individuals of similar genotype (same species and population) that can be unambiguously attributed to environmental variability (Valladares et al. 2000a,b).”
The contribution of interspecific variation in maximum tree height to tropical and temperate diversity (2005, background): “…rapid growth under high light in canopy species may result in lower seedling shade tolerance than in understorey species, despite considerable plasticity and interspecific differences within both groups (Thomas 2003, Thomas & Bazzaz 1999, Turner 2001, Valladares et al. 2000, Welden et al. 1991).”
Biomass allocation, morphology and photosynthesis of invasive and noninvasive exotic species grown at four irradiance levels (2007, methodology): “…fitted with the following equation: Pn ¼ Pmax 1 C0e aPPFD=Pmax where a was quantum yield under low PPFD, and C0 was the dimensionless coefficient when Pn approaches zero under low PPFD. Plasticity indices of different variables were calculated as (maximum minimum)/maximum (Valladares et al., 2000).”
A global scale mechanistic model of photosynthetic capacity (LUNA V1.0) (2016, background): “There are inherent intraspecific variations in leaf traits (Valladares et al., 2000) and in photosynthetic ca- pacity (Moran et al., 2016).”