Ecological Significance of Inherent Variation in Relative Growth Rate and Its Components

By Hendrik Poorter, Eric Garnier. 2007

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Environmental Engineering, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Citations in the corpus

On the link between functional traits and growth rate: meta‐analysis shows effects change with plant size, as predicted (2016, unknown): “In seedlings growing under favourable conditions, SLA has repeatedly been found to be a strong predictor of relative growth rate, regardless of vegetation type or growth form (Lambers & Poorter 1992; Reich, Walters & Ellsworth 1992; Grime et al. 1997; Wright & Westoby 1999; Garnier & Poorter 2007).”
Interspecific demographic trade‐offs and soil‐related habitat associations of tree species along resource gradients (2007, unknown): “The aggregate of individual responses in a population produces emergent patterns, not only in functional trait variation among species (Reich et al. 2003; Westoby & Wright 2006), but also in species’ demographic responses (Poorter & Garnier 1999; Suding et al. 2003; Condit et al. 2006).”
Plant traits, litter quality and decomposition in a Mediterranean old-field succession (2007, unknown): “These traits, which are involved in a fundamental trade-off between fast resource acquisition and efficient resource conservation (cf. Grime et al. 1997; Poorter and Garnier 1999; Wright et al. 2004), have been identified as key traits to scale-up from plant to ecosystem functioning (Lavorel and Gar”
A global study of relationships between leaf traits, climate and soil measures of nutrient fertility (2009, background): “Plants with leaf traits that allow a fast use of nutrients and growth but for shorter times (Poorter & Garnier, 1999; Westoby et al., 2002), like high SLA and high LNC, were found at high nutrient supply, while the reverse occurred at low nutrient supply where conservation of nutrients is arguably…”
Plant-water relationships and growth strategies of Jatropha curcas L. seedlings under different levels of drought stress (2009, methodology): “The 180 best fitting function was a second order polynomial (R²= 0.97), whose linear term was used 181 as an estimate of maximum relative growth rate (RGRmax; [gÂJ-1ÂGD\-1]) (Fernández et al., 182 2002; Poorter and Garnier 2007).”
A trait-based approach to comparative functional plant ecology: concepts, methods and applications for agroecology. A review (2012, background): “…traits involved in the LES for LDMC. Limited evidence suggest that LDMC is less tightly related to PSm and RGR than SLA at the whole-plant level (Poorter and Garnier 2007), while the comparison of three data sets where SLA, LDMC and LLS are available (Ryser and Urbas 2000; Wright 2001; Prior et…”
Soil‐related performance variation and distributions of tree species in a Bornean rain forest (2005, background): “…for rapid growth, such as thin, short-lived leaves with high nutrient concentrations, high photosynthetic rates and reduced allocation to antiherbivore defence, may incur particularly high survival costs on this resource-poor soil type (Chabot & Hicks 1982; Coley 1988; Poorter & Garnier 1999).”