Nutrient concentration, resorption and lifespan: leaf traits of Australian sclerophyll species

By I. Wright, M. Westoby. 2003

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

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Nutrient resorption of wetland graminoids is related to the type of nutrient limitation (2005, background): “Resorption efficiency was not consistently related to nutrient concentrations in green leaves, as has often been demonstrated for trees (Del Arco et al. 1991; Wright & Westoby 2003).”
Carbon cost of plant nitrogen acquisition: A mechanistic, globally applicable model of plant nitrogen uptake, retranslocation, and fixation (2010, background): “times there is no evidence for the link [Chapin and Kedrowski, 1983; Wright and Westoby, 2003].”
Burn or rot: leaf traits explain why flammability and decomposability are decoupled across species (2015, background): “The leaf traits related to species’ carbon and nutrient economies are well documented for these sites (Wright, Reich & Westoby 2001; Wright & Westoby 2002, 2003), and a detailed description of the sites can be found in Wright, Reich & Westoby (2001).”
Integrating plant–soil interactions into global carbon cycle models (2009, background): “Plants can acquireN from the soil via four pathways: advection (passive uptake), retranslocation (resorption), active uptake and biological N fixation (Ourry, Gordon & Macduff 1997; Hopmans & Bristow 2002; Wright & Westoby 2003).”
RESORPTION EFFICIENCY DECREASES WITH INCREASING GREEN LEAF NUTRIENTS IN A GLOBAL DATA SET (2005, background): “…sclerophyllous species in their native habitats, concentrations of both N and P in senesced leaves were negatively associated with leaf lifespan (Wright and Westoby 2003), suggesting that selection has minimized nutrient losses through long leaf lifespan and low concentrations of nutrients in…”
Specific leaf area explains differences in leaf traits between congeneric savanna and forest trees (2005, background): “The SLA and nutrient concentrations tend to be correlated with litter nutrient concentrations ( Wright & Westoby 2003 ), decomposition rate (Diaz et al. 2004), and palatability (Cornelissen et al. 2004), so the differences in leaf traits between savanna and forest species are likely to have importan”
The elemental stoichiometry of aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems and its relationships with organismic lifestyle and ecosystem structure and function: a review and perspectives (2011, background): “:P ratio with the ‘‘leaf economic spectrum’’, a paradigm that claims that plants with higher growth capacity have more productive leaves (lower LMA and higher photosynthetic capacity) (Wright et al. 2004; Reich et al. 2010).”
N : P ratios in terrestrial plants: variation and functional significance. (2004, background): “Long life span and low nutrient concentrations in litter appear to be the main adaptations under both N and P-limited conditions (Escudero et al., 1992; Wright & Westoby, 2003).”
Leaf nutrient concentration, nutrient resorption and litter decomposition in an evergreen broad-leaved forest in eastern China (2007, background): “…conservation in plants, nutrient resorption from senescing leaves has been widely studied in relation to soil fertility, soil humidity, plant growth-forms, leaf life span and forest succession (Boerner, 1984; Boerner, 1986; Chapin and Moilanen, 1991; Wright and Westoby, 2003; Yan et al., 2006).”
Species‐specific responses of foliar nutrients to long‐term nitrogen and phosphorus additions in a lowland tropical forest (2014, background): “…et al. 2007); (ii) another unmeasured leaf trait, such as leaf mass area (Hidaka & Kitayama 2011) or leaf longevity (Reich, Ellsworth & Uhl 1995; Wright & Westoby 2003), is a more important mechanism by which these tropical trees retain nutrients; or (iii) actual P resorption efficiencies were…”
Connecting the green and brown worlds . allometric and stoichiometric predictability of above- and below-ground networks (2013, background): “Wright and Westoby (2003) investigated eastern Australian evergreens (ca. 70 species in pristine condi- tions) and showed that, where soil P was the major limiting factor, foliar and litter N% scaled isometrically, otherwise foliar and litter P% scale allo- metrically (bigger difference between…”
Carbon quality rather than stoichiometry controls litter decomposition in a tropical rain forest (2010, background): “Low concentrations of foliar nutrients may even be accentuated in litter as a result of a particularly efficient resorption of limiting nutrients during leaf senescence (Vitousek 1998; Wright & Westoby 2003; Hättenschwiler et al. 2008).”