Leaf traits are good predictors of plant performance across 53 rain forest species.

By Lourens Poorter, Frans Bongers. Ecology, 2006

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Linking functional traits and demographic rates in a subtropical tree community: the importance of size dependency (2014, background): “…wood density and maximum size (Poorter et al. 2008; Wright et al. 2010; Martinez-Vilalta et al. 2010; Herault et al. 2011; R€uger et al. 2012; Iida et al. 2014); however, most of this work has failed to uncover relationships between demography and leaf traits (but see Poorter & Bongers 2006).”
Seedling root morphology and biomass allocation of 62 tropical tree species in relation to drought‐ and shade‐tolerance (2009, background): “The juvenile CE is also negatively correlated with sapling survival of the species in the shade (Poorter & Bongers 2006).”
Abiotic and biotic drivers of biomass change in a Neotropical forest (2017, background): “Mortality of small trees would decrease with resource availability and conservative trait values (Poorter & Bongers 2006), but mortality of larger trees that mainly determine total biomass mortality would depend more on individual senescence or stochastic winds and therefore not strongly on the…”
Functional traits shape ontogenetic growth trajectories of rain forest tree species (2011, background): “(i) Tree seedling growth tends to increase with increasing SLA and decreasing seed size (Kitajima 1994; Baraloto, Forget & Goldberg 2005; Poorter & Bongers 2006).”
Changing drivers of species dominance during tropical forest succession (2014, neutral): “Chlorophyll content reflects light capture efficiency per unit leaf area (Rozendaal, Hurtado & Poorter 2006), which is important for individuals growing in the shade (Poorter & Bongers 2006).”
Basin-wide variations in foliar properties of Amazonian forest: phylogeny, soils and climate. (2009, background): “This combination of traits is usually found at species with fast growth rates (Poorter and Bongers, 2006).”
Determinants of whole‐plant light requirements in Bornean rain forest tree saplings (2007, result): “Our results apparently diverge with those of a recent survey of saplings of 53 Bolivian tree species, for which leaf life span and mass-based photosynthetic rates were the strongest correlates of a shade tolerance index based on mean crown exposure (Poorter & Bongers 2006).”
Ecology of Leaf Longevity (2011, background): “The decrease in leaf longevity with higher levels of foliar nitrogen content is a well-established interspecific relationship (Field and Mooney 1986; Field 1991; Reich et al. 1991, 1992, 1994; Wright et al. 2004; Poorter and Bongers 2006), but this negative relationship may or may not apply within s”
Towards a trait-based quantification of species niche (2009, background): “Comparative approaches have established empirical relationships (i) between functional traits and performance currencies (e.g. Poorter and Bongers 2006; Wright and Westoby 2001; Wright et al. 2004) and (ii) between functional response traits and environments (e.g. Ackerly et al. 2002; Garnier et…”
From plant functional types to plant functional traits (2015, background): “FTs show close association with growth, establishment, dispersal, competition and response to disturbance (Poorter and Bongers, 2006; Weiher et al., 1999).”
Slow‐growing species cope best with drought: evidence from long‐term measurements in a tropical semi‐deciduous moist forest of Central Africa (2013, background): “…habit is a proxy for leaf life span (in short, evergreen leaves are long-lived and deciduous leaves are short-lived; Givnish 2002), this relationship corresponds to a pattern where slow-growing species have longlived leaves, and fast-growing species shorter-lived leaves (Poorter & Bongers 2006).”
The world‐wide ‘fast–slow’ plant economics spectrum: a traits manifesto (2014, background): “…that lead to those differing distributions (e.g. Grime 1965; Loach 1967; Kitajima 1994; Reich et al. 1995; Walters & Reich 1999; Lusk & Reich 2000; Poorter & Bongers 2006; Sterck, Poorter & Schieving 2006; Baltzer & Thomas 2007a,b; Poorter et al. 2008; Kitajima & Poorter 2010; Poorter et al.…”