Congruency analysis of species ranking based on leaf traits: which traits are the more reliable?

By P. Roche, Natalia Díaz-Burlinson, Sophie Gachet. Plant Ecology, 2004

150 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Plant Science

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In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

1. S. Lavorel
2. J. Lepš
3. R. Pakeman
4. Eric Garnier
5. K. Grigulis
6. M. Navas
7. Francesco de Bello
8. Helen M. Quested

In Nature and Landscape Conservation

1. S. Lavorel
2. Eric Garnier
3. Francesco de Bello
4. R. Pakeman
5. J. Lepš
6. M. Navas
7. K. Grigulis
8. Helen M. Quested

In Plant Science

1. Eric Garnier
2. S. Lavorel
3. M. Navas
4. K. Grigulis
5. R. Pakeman
6. P. Cruz
7. David L. Jones
8. S. Berman

Citations in the corpus

• A trait-based approach to comparative functional plant ecology: concepts, methods and applications for agroecology. A review (2012, background): “LDMC, which is one of the SLA components together with leaf thickness and density (Roderick et al., 1999; Garnier et al., 2001b; Vile et al., 2005) is indeed easier to measure and less prone to measurement errors than SLA since only masses have to be measured, is less variable than the latter among ”
• Assessing functional diversity in the field - methodology matters! (2007, background): “data). These and our findings confirm previous assessments that demonstrated the robustness of leaf traits and functional classifications to interannual variability (Garnier et al. 2001; Roche et al. 2004; Foster & Brooks 2005).”
• Leaf morphology correlates with water and light availability: What consequences for simple and compound leaves? (2009, background): “Leaf traits can thus provide a link between various environmental factors and leaf functions [11].”
• 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): “Based on previous studies comparing intra- vs. interspecific variability of these traits (e.g. Garnier et al., 2001; Roche et al., 2004; Fenner and Thompson, 2005, and references therein), these were grouped into either ‘variable’ or ‘stable’ traits among treatments (Table 3).”
• Intraspecific variability in leaf traits strongly affects alder leaf decomposition in a stream (2008, background): “have been demonstrated for alder (King & Ferris, 1998; Prat et al., 1992 ) and plant genes have been found to regulate litter quality and decomposability (Madritch & Hunter, 2005; Silfver et al., 2007; Whitham et al., 2006).”
• Leaf dry matter content is better at predicting above-ground net primary production than specific leaf area (2017, background): “104 105 Unlike SLA, LDMC varies independently of leaf thickness (Shipley 1995; Wilson et al. 1999; 106 Roche et al. 2004) but is also strongly correlated with resource availability and with relative 107 growth rate (Weiher et al. 1999; Garnier et al. 2004; Fortunel et al. 2009).”