Leaf-size divergence along rainfall and soil-nutrient gradients: Is the method of size reduction common among clades?

By P. Mcdonald, C. Fonseca, J. Overton, M. Westoby. 2003

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

1. Peter B. Reich
2. D. Laughlin
3. Sarah J. Richardson
4. I. Wright
5. Peter M. van Bodegom
6. P. Bellingham
7. L. Sack
8. Dave Kleiman

In Nature and Landscape Conservation

1. Peter B. Reich
2. D. Laughlin
3. I. Wright
4. Sarah J. Richardson
5. L. Sack
6. Peter M. van Bodegom
7. Rien Aerts
8. P. Bellingham

Citations in the corpus

• Soil fertility induces coordinated responses of multiple independent functional traits (2015, background): “Plant functional traits have been shown to vary significantly over climatic gradients (McDonald et al. 2003; Laughlin et al. 2011), soil gradients (Vitousek, Turner & Kitayama 1995; ter Steege et al.”
• The leaf size/number trade‐off in trees (2007, background): “environments (Gates 1980; Dudley 1996; Ackerly et al. 2002; Bragg & Westoby 2002; MacDonald et al. 2003).”
• A global study of relationships between leaf traits, climate and soil measures of nutrient fertility (2009, background): “, 1997; Knops & Reinhart, 2000; Meziane & Shipley, 2001) as well as low P fertility (Specht & Rundel, 1990; McDonald et al., 2003; Paoli, 2006) select for similar suites of leaf traits: low SLA, LNC, LPC (but see Cordell et al.”
• Leaf Trait Diversification and Design in Seven Rare Taxa of the Hawaiian Plantago Radiation (2009, background): “…trait values for given taxa can be garnered from a single or few individuals and that this would be especially justified for rare species (e.g., McNab 2003; Meinzer et al. 2003); other studies indicated that even with low replication within taxa, trait correlations can still be calculated…”
• Comparative biogeography of New Zealand trees: species richness, height, leaf traits and range sizes (2010, background): “The much narrower evergreen leaves of the Tasmanian and Victorian trees probably results from the lower rainfall and poorer soils of those states (McDonald et al. 2003).”