High leaf mass per area of related species assemblages may reflect low rainfall and carbon isotope discrimination rather than low phosphorus and nitrogen concentrations

By B. Lamont, P. Groom, Richard M. Cowling. 2002

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Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Why do evergreen trees dominate the Australian seasonal tropics (2005, background): “leaf attributes showing that LMA tends to increase with decreasing rainfall and increasing temperature and radiation (Niinemets 2001; Lamont et al. 2002; Wright et al. 2004).”
Tradeoffs between functional strategies for resource-use and drought-survival in Mediterranean rangeland species (2013, background): “, water loss) and maintain turgor, photosynthetic activity and carbon gain over a longer period of time (Givnish, 1987; Lamont et al., 2002; Escudero et al., 2008).”
Leaf traits and resprouting ability in the Mediterranean basin (2006, background): “High leaf density and/or thickness (i.e. high LMA) are likely to reduce internal CO2 conductance and/or increase carbon demand, thus a lower internal CO2 is achieved for a constant stomatal conductance, and increasing δ13C (Parkhurst 1994; Lamont et al. 2002).”
A handbook of protocols for standardised and easy measurement of plant functional traits worldwide (2003, background): “…Poorter and Van der Werf (1998); Westoby (1998); Cornelissen et al. (1999); Poorter and Garnier (1999); Poorter and de Jong (1999); Weiher et al. (1999); Wilson et al. (1999); Castro-Díez et al. (2000); Wright et al. (2001); Garnier et al. (2001a); Lamont et al. (2002); Westoby et al. (2002).”
Community Assembly, Niche Conservatism, and Adaptive Evolution in Changing Environments (2003, result): “As expected from comparative and functional studies (Parsons and Moldenke 1975; Givnish 1979; Cunningham et al. 1999; Fonseca et al. 2000; Lamont et al. 2002), there were trends toward lower SLA (thicker or denser leaf tissue) in species preferring high-insolation, south-facing slopes (fig.”
The plant traits that drive ecosystems: Evidence from three continents (2004, result): “Our findings suggest that water- and nutrient stress lead to convergent trait syndromes, a finding consistent with other recent empirical work (Cunningham et al. 1999; Lamont et al. 2002), and illustrate how, on the basis of different anatomical structures, plants from very different lineages addres”
Functional leaf traits, plant communities and acclimation processes in relation to oxidative stress in trees: a critical overview (2008, background): “…tree and shrub communities are usually made up of species belonging to functional groups with high LMA and high leaf lifespan (LL), and the opposite occurs in environments displaying the opposite characteristics (Reich et al., 1998; Wright et al., 2001; Lamont et al., 2002; Wright & Westoby, 2002).”
The determinants of leaf turgor loss point and prediction of drought tolerance of species and biomes: a global meta-analysis. (2012, background): “The relationship between high e, ptlp, and drought tolerance has been termed one of the oldest controversies in ecology (Lamont et al. 2002) and has given rise to numerous hypotheses.”
Plant structural traits and their role in anti-herbivore defence (2007, background): “, 1975; Chabot and Hicks, 1982), or water (Lamont et al., 2002) or nutrient (Chapin et al.”
Vertical canopy gradients in δ13C correspond with leaf nitrogen content in a mixed-species conifer forest (2006, background): “(Vitousek et al. 1990; Sparks and Ehleringer 1997; Cordell et al. 1999; Hultine and Marshall 2000; Li et al. 2004), or sites with different water stress (Lamont et al. 2002; Samuelson et al. 2003; MacFarlane et al. 2004).”
Basin-wide variations in foliar properties of Amazonian forest: phylogeny, soils and climate. (2009, background): “It has, for example, been proposed that leaves with a high MA should also have a lower WUE (Lamont et al., 2002).”