Variation in leaf functional trait values within and across individuals and species: an example from a Costa Rican dry forest

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Rapid determination of comparative drought tolerance traits: using an osmometer to predict turgor loss point (2012, background): “…approximately 10–15 min per individ- ual leaf and an hour for six, which is typically sufficient replica- tion for reliable determination of species means (Sack et al. 2003; Hulshof & Swenson 2010), compared to the approxi- mately one or 2 days required to generate a p–v curve for 4–6 leaves.”
New handbook for standardised measurement of plant functional traits worldwide (2013, background): “Species may therefore vary in which quantitative traits are stable across givengradients, so tests shouldbemadebefore a trait is taken tobe stable for a given species (Albert et al. 2010, 2012; Hulshof and Swenson 2010; Messier et al. 2010; Moreira et al. 2012).”
Phylogenetic and functional alpha and beta diversity in temperate and tropical tree communities (2012, background): “A recent power analysis of 247 functional traits in tropical trees (Hulshof and Swenson 2010) has suggested that this 248 sample size can allow for robust estimates of species mean values.”
Functional traits of individual trees reveal ecological constraints on community assembly in tropical rain forests (2011, methodology): “Th is method overlooks the within-species component of community-level variation in trait values, which recent studies have shown to be substantial (Albert et al. 2010a, Baraloto et al. 2010a, Hulshof and Swenson 2010).”