Causes and consequences of variation in leaf mass per area (LMA): a meta-analysis.

By Hendrik Poorter, U. Niinemets, Lourens Poorter, I. Wright, R. Villar. New Phytologist, 2009

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Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Plant Science

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Temperature effects on forest herbs assessed by warming and transplant experiments along a latitudinal gradient (2011, background): “The concurrent changes with southwards transplantation (especially related to light availability) will likely have inverted the response of SLA to temperature, as irradiance is one of the primary determinants of SLA (Poorter et al., 2009).”
Flowering phenology and height growth pattern are associated with maximum plant height, relative growth rate and stem tissue mass density in herbaceous grassland species (2011, background): “As suggested in previous studies (e.g. Hunt &Cornelissen 1997; Sun, Jin & Shi 2006; Poorter et al. 2009), low LMA could allow for a large photosynthetic area in the rapid-growing species, especially in the shorter species; high LMA might be helpful for the species reaching Hmax later to alleviate po”
Oaks Physiological Ecology. Exploring the Functional Diversity of Genus Quercus L. (2017, background): “An increase in vascular and sclerenchyma tissue improves the leaf support and structure, and may confer on the leaf a better structural defense (Poorter et al. 2009).”
Functional traits and the growth-mortality trade-off in tropical trees. (2010, background): “There is a strong negative relationship between LMA and early seedling growth rates; however, direct limitation of growth rates by large LMA decreases in importance as trees mature and leaf number increases (Lambers and Poorter 1992, Reich et al. 1992, Poorter et al. 2009).”
Leaf attributes and tree growth in a tropical dry forest (2011, background): “For example, the pre-monsoon peak in SLA coincided with leafing in that season; new leaves are reported to have greater SLA than older leaves, presumably because of a build-up of cell wall material and chloroplasts as leaves age (Poorter et al. 2009).”
Functional traits shape ontogenetic growth trajectories of rain forest tree species (2011, background): “Specific leaf area (leaf area divided by leaf mass; SLA) indicates the leaf efficiency for light capture per unit biomass invested (Poorter et al. 2009).”
Latitudinal gradients as natural laboratories to infer species' responses to temperature (2013, background): “The SLA (leaf area divided by its dry weight) is related to the growth rate and ecological strategy of plants (Westoby 1998; Poorter et al. 2009).”
Drought tolerance as predicted by leaf water potential at turgor loss point varies strongly across species within an Amazonian forest (2015, neutral): “…and thickness as species traits have sometimes been found to be associated with drier conditions and thus proposed as potential predictors of leaf drought tolerance (e.g. Niinemets 2001; Lamont, Groom & Cowling 2002; Read & Sanson 2003; Wright et al. 2005; Poorter et al. 2009; Onoda et al. 2011).”