Leaf traits affect the above-ground productivity and quality of pasture grasses

By L. Pontes, Jean-François Soussana, F. Louault, D. Andueza, P. Carrère. 2007

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Subfields: Agronomy and Crop Science, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Soil Science

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A trait-based approach to comparative functional plant ecology: concepts, methods and applications for agroecology. A review (2012, background): “In particular, biomass production, the date of peak production and the digestibility of herbage can be predicted from leaf traits and/or plant height (Al Haj Khaled et al. 2006; Pontes et al. 2007; Ansquer et al. 2009b).”
GEMINI: a Grassland Model Simulating the Role of Plant Traits for Community Dynamics and Ecosystem F (2012, background): “When soil water content (SWC) was below 10%, all plots were irrigated (see Pontes et al., 2007 for full details).”
Plant trait–digestibility relationships across management and climate gradients in permanent grasslands (2014, background): “…mass) and leaf nitrogen concentration (LNC) generally correlate positively with digestibility (Duru, Cruz & Magda 2004; Al Haj Khaled et al. 2006; Pontes et al. 2007a), while leaf dry matter content (LDMC: the ratio of leaf dry mass to water-saturated fresh mass) and leaf life span tend to…”
Single‐trait functional indices outperform multi‐trait indices in linking environmental gradients and ecosystem services in a complex landscape (2013, background): “…abundant species should have the strongest effects on ecosystem processes (Grime 1998), which has been borne out empirically (Garnier et al. 2004; Pontes et al. 2007; Gross et al. 2008; Fortunel et al. 2009), as has the utility of community-weighted traits in detecting shifts in environmental…”
Plant root traits affecting the resistance of soils to concentrated flow erosion (2012, background): “…used to determine plant traits that control litter decomposition rates (e.g. Cortez et al., 2007; Cornwell et al., 2008), primary productivity (e.g. Pontes et al., 2007) or nitrogen cycling (e.g. Craine et al., 2002) but can be generalized to other ecological processes including soil protection…”
Using functional traits to predict grassland ecosystem change: a mathematical test of the response‐and‐effect trait approach (2009, background): “…functional divergence (Diaz et al., 2007b; Mokany et al., 2008) has been shown for aboveground net primary productivity (Garnier et al., 2004; Da S. Pontes et al., 2007), shoot litter decomposability (Aerts et al., 2003; Kazakou et al., 2006; Diaz et al., 2007a) and C-cycling (see Wardle et al.,…”
Trade-off between root nitrogen acquisition and shoot nitrogen utilization across 13 co-occurring pasture grass species (2009, methodology): “2004 (Pontes et al. 2007), leaf traits were measured in the same experiment from 20 to 29 September 2006, five weeks after a cut.”
How fundamental plant functional trait relationships scale‐up to trade‐offs and synergies in ecosystem services (2012, methodology): “…Vile, Shipley & Garnier 2006), litter decomposition under field (Garnier et al. 2004) and controlled (Fortunel et al. 2009) conditions, digestibility (Pontes Da Silva et al. 2007), nitrification (Laughlin 2011), soil moisture (Mokany, Ash & Roxburgh 2008) and water uptake (Gross et al. 2008).”
Leaf dry matter content is better at predicting above-ground net primary production than specific leaf area (2017, background): “…of leaf plant traits to cutting frequency and nitrogen supply among temperate 428 grass species, many of which also dominated our grassland samples, Pontes et al. (2007) 429 found that within-species, between treatment-variation in SLA and LDMC was around 14 % 430 and that LDMC but not SLA was…”