Cross‐species relationships between seedling relative growth rate, nitrogen productivity and root vs leaf function in 28 Australian woody species

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Using plant functional traits to guide restoration: A case study in California coastal grassland (2011, background): “Leaf thickness, a trait that is closely related to SLA, showed the expected increase at Point Reyes but decreased at Tom’s Point.”
Comparative growth analysis of tropical forest and savanna woody plants using phylogenetically independent contrasts (2003, unknown): “1992; Kitajima 1994; Wright & Westoby 2000).”
Trade-off between root nitrogen acquisition and shoot nitrogen utilization across 13 co-occurring pasture grass species (2009, background): “Journal compilation © 2009 British Ecological Society, Functional Ecology, 23, 668–679 and LNC has previously been evidenced (Poorter et al. 1991; Wright & Westoby 2000).”
On the link between functional traits and growth rate: meta‐analysis shows effects change with plant size, as predicted (2016, methodology): “This model extends earlier efforts to model mass-based growth of seedlings as a function of traits (Lambers & Poorter 1992; Cornelissen, Diez & Hunt 1996; Wright & Westoby 2000; Enquist et al. 2007).”