The world‐wide ‘fast–slow’ plant economics spectrum: a traits manifesto

By Peter B. Reich. 2014

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Climate and soil nutrients differentially drive multidimensional fine root traits in ectomycorrhizal‐dominated alpine coniferous forests (2020, background): “Overall, our results across closely related ECM-dominated conifers and sites are consistent with the assertion of the existence of RES by the negative relationship between RTD and root N concentration (Bergmann et al., 2020; Kramer-Walter et al., 2016; Reich, 2014).”
A global meta-analysis of the relative extent of intraspecific trait variation in plant communities. (2015, positive): “…consistent with previous studies finding extensive ITV in leaf economic traits arising from plastic responses to light, nutrients, proposed universal ‘fast-slow’ plant economics spectrum that may help explain individual plant strategies, community assembly, and ecosystem functioning (Reich 2014).”
Drought resistance and resilience: The role of soil moisture–plant interactions and legacies in a dryland ecosystem (2020, background): “However, variation in plant functional traits can allow for the stable coexistence of species within a plant community by facilitating spatial and temporal niche partitioning (Reich, 2014; Reynolds et al., 2007; Schwinning & Ehleringer, 2001; Silvertown et al., 2015).”
Interspecific integration of trait dimensions at local scales: the plant phenotype as an integrated network (2017, background): “For example, it has been proposed that the LES extends beyond leaves to include traits from other organs also reflecting resource acquisition and conservation (Freschet et al. 2010; Reich 2014).”
Global effects of soil and climate on leaf photosynthetic traits and rates (2015, background): “Thus, the tendency of plants sampled locally to be strongly co-varying in Aarea and gs and hydraulic properties (Reich, 2014) does not hold in the same fashion across very broad climate and soil gradients, supporting the hypothesis that trade-offs between water and nutrient use predominate at larger”
Root traits are related to plant water-use among rangeland Mediterranean species (2017, background): “However, the latter are more efficient at surviving long droughts (Reich 2014).”
Climate, soil and plant functional types as drivers of global fine‐root trait variation (2017, background): “2015), and acknowledging growing evidence for significant coordination between plant traits above-ground and fineroot traits (e.g. Freschet et al. 2013b; Reich 2014), one could expect that, in conditions of low soil fertility, plants would benefit more from having traits favouring resource conservat”
A global method for calculating plant CSR ecological strategies applied across biomes world‐wide (2017, background): “The world-wide leaf economics spectrum, itself a part of the ‘fast–slow’ plant economics spectrum (Reich 2014), and the leaf size spectrum are major components of CSR strategy variation (Pierce et al. 2012).”
Using plant functional traits to restore Hawaiian rainforest (2015, background): “First, we wanted to estimate the ‘functional role’ or ‘strategy’ (sensu Reich 2014) of different species within HLWF environments, and secondly, we wanted to identify specific traits that would address our restoration objectives.”
Root traits are multidimensional: specific root length is independent from root tissue density and the plant economic spectrum (2016, background): “in tandem; otherwise, the plant will be functioning inefficiently, and this would be selected against (Reich 2014).”