The worldwide leaf economics spectrum

By I. Wright, Peter B. Reich, M. Westoby, David D. Ackerly, Z. Baruch, Frans Bongers, Jeannine Cavender-Bares, T. Chapin, J. H. C. Cornelissen, M. Diemer and 23 more. Nature, 2004

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Assessing the generality of global leaf trait relationships. (2005, background): “N mass relationships become less steep with increasing site temperature, potential evapotranspiration or irradiance (Wright et al., 2004; I.J.W. and co-workers, unpublished data).”
Scaling from leaf traits to fire behaviour: community composition predicts fire severity in a temperate forest (2011, background): “The study of how leaf traits influence litter flammability has the potential to link an important ecological process, fire, with increasingly well-studied suites of plant traits related to species distributions and community assembly (Westoby et al. 2002; Wright et al. 2004).”
Variation in hydraulic conductivity of mangroves: influence of species, salinity, and nitrogen and phosphorus availability (2006, background): “But variation is relatively modest over broad variations in climate (Wright et al. 2004) and in response to variation in nutrient availability, particularly in comparison to the high variation observed in hydraulic traits (e.g. Lovelock et al. 2005).”
LATITUDINAL VARIATION IN PALATABILITY OF SALT-MARSH PLANTS: ARE DIFFERENCES CONSTITUTIVE? (2005, background): “For example, differences in growing season length are correlated with leaf toughness (Wright et al. 2004), and hence might affect plant palatability to herbivores.”
Differential responses of plant functional trait to grazing between two contrasting dominant C3 and C4 species in a typical steppe of Inner Mongolia, China (2011, background): “…as reflecting the adaptations to environmental change and trade-offs among different functions within a plant, thus they can better link environmental drivers and plant responses to ecosystem structure and functioning (Díaz et al. 1998; Díaz et al. 2007; Lavorel et al. 2007; Wright et al. 2004).”
Can CSR classification be generally applied outside Britain? (2010, background): “Indeed, trees exhibit the full range of SLA values shown by herbs, although mean SLA differs between these life forms (Wright et al. 2004).”
Plant allometry, stoichiometry and the temperature-dependence of primary productivity (2005, background): “These two alternatives can be reconciled by the ‘growth rate hypothesis’ (GRH) (Elser et al., 2000; Sterner & Elser, 2002; Elser et al., 2003; Agren, 2004), which predicts that selection for rapid growth (i.e. high YG) increases tissue P-content disproportionately (and thus decreases N : P) due to i”
Convergent effects of elevation on functional leaf traits within and among species (2014, background): “To assess whether such pat- terns in form and function are similar, both within and among species and across disparate systems, we conducted a meta-analysis that focused on a few key leaf functional traits from the leaf economics spectrum (Reich, Walters & Ellsworth 1997; Wright et al. 2004, 2005).”
Assessing the effects of land-use change on plant traits, communities and ecosystem functioning in grasslands: a standardized methodology and lessons from an application to 11 European sites. (2007, background): “This has resulted in a rapidly increasing global coverage of data sets on plant traits (Niinemets, 2001; Reich and Oleksyn, 2004; Wright et al., 2004; Dı́az et al., 2004; Moles et al., 2005), which become available in easy and normalized format following the development of trait databases (Grime et…”
Coordinated pattern of multi-element variability in leaves and roots across Chinese forest biomes (2016, background): “However, variability in plant elements is probably the result of environmental and evolutionary regulation (Chapin, 1980; Wright et al., 2004; Stock & Verboom, 2012; Zhang et al., 2012).”
Are you what you eat? Physiological constraints on organismal stoichiometry in an elementally imbalanced world (2005, neutral): “rates and faster leaf turnover times (Wright et al. 2004).”