Leaf size and foraging for light in a sclerophyll woodland

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Cross‐species patterns in the coordination between leaf and stem traits, and their implications for plant hydraulics (2006, background): “Indeed, leaf size was negatively correlated with microsite light level in a study made nearby to the Kuringai Chase National Park site (in an open woodland), although this was true only when the comparisons were made at a given plant height (Bragg and Westoby 2002).”
The leaf size/number trade‐off in trees (2007, background): “2002; Bragg & Westoby 2002; MacDonald et al .”
Structural determinants of leaf light-harvesting capacity and photosynthetic potentials (2006, background): “In particular, smaller leaves can be more densely packed on the shoot, thereby maximizing the shoot light interception when the irradiance is high (King and Maindonald 1999; Bragg and Westoby 2002, Fig. 1). However, denser leaf packing inevitably results in larger self-shading within the shoot (Va”
Being John Harper: Using evolutionary ideas to improve understanding of global patterns in plant traits (2018, background): “At local scales, leaf size tends to decrease with increasing exposure to sunlight (Ackerly et al., 2002; Bragg & Westoby, 2002), but the global relationship between leaf size and irradiance is extremely weak (R2 = .002; Wright et al., 2017).”