The Evolution of Plant Functional Variation: Traits, Spectra, and Strategies

By Peter B. Reich, I. Wright, Jeannine Cavender-Bares, Joseph M. Craine, J. Oleksyn, M. Westoby, M. Walters. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL PLANT SCIENCES, 2003

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Underappreciated Consequences of Phenotypic Plasticity for Ecological Speciation (2012, background): “For example, those studying adaptation and speciation have often used phrases like “merely plastic” to contrast environmentally induced variation against geographic or species differences with strong genetic bases [4–8].”
Slow‐growing species cope best with drought: evidence from long‐term measurements in a tropical semi‐deciduous moist forest of Central Africa (2013, background): “Hydraulic conductance indicates the species strategy for water transport and is related to photosynthesis and growth (Reich et al. 2003).”
Xylem cavitation caused by drought and freezing stress in four co-occurring Juniperus species (2006, background): “The evolutionary relationships of traits involved in xylem structure and function are a promising avenue for further work to understand variation in hydraulic traits among taxa (e.g. Maherali et al. 2004, Reich et al. 2003).”
Predicting tropical insect herbivore abundance from host plant traits and phylogeny (2012, background): “This puts secondary forests at one end of a spectrum that is interpreted as trade-off between the rate of investment in biomass and the speed of return on that investment (Reich et al. 2003, Wright et al. 2004).”
Mechanisms of plant competition for nutrients, water and light (2013, background): “The partitioning of nutrient supplies is proportional to the root length density of different individuals (Reich et al. 2003; Raynaud & Leadley 2004; Craine, Fargione & Sugita 2005).”
MULTIPLE TRAIT ASSOCIATIONS IN RELATION TO HABITAT DIFFERENTIATION AMONG 17 FLORIDIAN OAK SPECIES (2004, background): “Differences in stature, wood density, and seed size were also analyzed as important aspects of life history strategies that influence species distributions in other systems (Westoby et al. 1992, Baker et al. 2003, Meinzer 2003, Reich et al. 2003).”
Generality and specificity in light harvesting, carbon gain capacity and shade tolerance among plant functional groups (2009, background): “Based on the work in seedlings, Reich et al. (2003) strongly suggests opposite to the common expectation, that shade tolerant species grown under the same light conditions have higher LMA than intolerants, and conclude that species shade tolerance is associated with general resource-conservation…”
The controversy over traits conferring shade‐tolerance in trees: ontogenetic changes revisited (2006, background): “Larger seeds enable shadetolerant species to ‘buy time’ before carbon starvation in the understorey (Reich et al. 2003).”
Basin-wide variations in foliar properties of Amazonian forest: phylogeny, soils and climate. (2009, background): “Suites of plant traits are often used to infer the functioning and performance of different species (Westoby et al., 2002) as well as to identify potential evolutionary pathways of trait variation (Reich et al., 2003; Ackerly, 2003).”
Influence of root and leaf traits on the uptake of nutrients in cover crops (2016, background): “Leaf and root traits have been frequently related to plant ability to acquire, use and conserve resources, and have been used to qualify plant acquisition strategy (Reich et al. 2003).”
Shocks to the system: community assembly of the oak savanna in a 40-year fire frequency experiment (2012, background): “Such functional traits shifts would be expected across this fine-scaled ecotone, based on known significance of these functional attributes (e.g., Niinemets 2001, Wright et al. 2001, Reich et al. 2003a, b, Poorter et al. 2006, Valladares and Sanchez-Gomez 2006).”
Towards a trait‐based ecology of wetland vegetation (2017, background): “Other traits, however, tend towards the opposite, more conservative habit [notably specific leaf area (SLA), leaf nitrogen content (LNC), and LDMC].”