Ecological significance of leaf life span among Central European grass species

By Peter Ryser, Pille Urbas. 2000

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Subfields: Nature and Landscape Conservation, Plant Science

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A handbook of protocols for standardised and easy measurement of plant functional traits worldwide (2003, unknown): “…et al. (1999); Hodgson et al. (1999); Niinemets (1999, 2001); Poorter and Garnier (1999); Roderick et al. (1999); Ryser and Aeschlimann (1999); Wilson et al. (1999); Ryser and Urbas (2000); Garnier et al. (2001a); Shipley and Vu (2002); Vendramini et al. (2002); Wright and Westoby (2002).”
A trait-based approach to comparative functional plant ecology: concepts, methods and applications for agroecology. A review (2012, background): “…and RGR than SLA at the whole-plant level (Poorter and Garnier 2007), while the comparison of three data sets where SLA, LDMC and LLS are available (Ryser and Urbas 2000; Wright 2001; Prior et al. 2003; Navas et al. 2010) shows a looser relationship between LDMC and LLS than between SLA and LLS…”
Do plant traits retrieved from a database accurately predict on‐site measurements? (2013, background): “SLA is tightly correlated with photosynthetic capacity and leaf life span (Ryser & Urbas 2000; Wright et al. 2004; Shipley 2006).”
The biology and ecology of narrow endemic and widespread plants: a comparative study of trait variation in 20 congeneric pairs (2004, background): “…is likely to be associated with: (i) small stature (Westoby et al. 2002), (ii) high nutrient conservation, i.e. higher leaf dry matter content (Ryser and Urbas 2000), (iii) and low resource acquisition ability, i.e. lower maximum photosynthetic rate, or lower specific leaf area and leaf…”
Ecology of Leaf Longevity (2011, background): “Leaf longevities in 32 Swiss grass species ranged from 19 to 29 days for annuals versus 30 to 113 days for perennials (Ryser and Urbas 2000).”
Fine root demography and morphology in response to soil resources availability among xeric and mesic sandhill tree species (2002, background): “Root morphological traits were previously proposed to be potential surrogates of root longevity (Eissenstat 1991; Eissenstat 1992; Ryser & Lambers 1995) based on relationships between high SLA and shorter leaf life span (Lambers & Poorter 1992; Reich et al. 1992; Reich et al. 1999; Ryser & Urbas 20”
Responses of wetland graminoids to the relative supply of nitrogen and phosphorus (2004, background): “Second, dry matter content is generally positively correlated, and SLA negatively correlated with the life span of biomass but see Diemer et al. 1992; Ryser 1996; Schläpfer and Ryser 1996; Reich et al. 1999; Ryser and Urbas 2000 .”
Nutrient resorption of wetland graminoids is related to the type of nutrient limitation (2005, background): “In contrast, most graminoids have short-lived leaves (Aerts & de Caluwe 1995; Ryser & Urbas 2000), so that RE plays a greater role than life span for their nutrient conservation (Aerts & Chapin 2000).”
The Evolution of Plant Functional Variation: Traits, Spectra, and Strategies (2003, background): “Low-N species maintained greater biomass than highN species more by producing tissues with lower N concentrations and greater longevity (Ryser and Urbas 2000; Craine et al. 2002), rather than by acquiring more N per unit tissue.”
Variation in leaf traits through seasons and N-availability levels and its consequences for ranking grassland species (2005, background): “Species having a high relative growth rate, RGR (increase in biomass per unit of biomass and per unit of time) are characterized by a high SLA, a low LLS (Reich et al. 1992; Ryser & Urbas 2000) and dominate in nutrient-rich habitats (Lambers & Poorter 1992).”
Convergence towards higher leaf mass per area in dry and nutrient‐poor habitats has different consequences for leaf life span (2002, background): “High LMA species have been shown to achieve greater average leaf life spans (LL) in a variety of habitats (Reich et al. 1997; Diemer 1998; Ryser & Urbas 2000).”