Plant trait–digestibility relationships across management and climate gradients in permanent grasslands

By A. Gardarin, Eric Garnier, P. Carrère, P. Cruz, D. Andueza, Anne Bonis, Marie‐Pascale Colace, B. Dumont, Michel Duru, A. Farruggia and 9 more. 2014

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Traits link drought resistance with herbivore defence and plant economics in semi‐arid grasslands: The central roles of phenology and leaf dry matter content (2020, background): “…(LDMC) can variously be described as an economic trait, a drought trait or an herbivore resistance trait (Bartlett, Scoffoni, Ardy, et al., 2012; Gardarin et al., 2014; Wilson, Thompson, & Hodgson, 1999) and individual leaf area is related to both herbivory and drought (Milchunas et al., 1988).”
Community‐level plant palatability increases with elevation as insect herbivore abundance declines (2017, methodology): “…g 1) was calculated as the ratio of the leaf dry mass to its saturated fresh mass. LDMC is positively related to leaf toughness, where high LDMC plants present higher resistance to physical hazards (i.e. herbivory, wind, hail; Cornelissen et al. 2003) and lower digestibility (Gardarin et al. 2014).”