A global study of relationships between leaf traits, climate and soil measures of nutrient fertility

By J. Ordoñez, Peter M. van Bodegom, Jan-Philip M. Witte, I. Wright, Peter B. Reich, Rien Aerts. 2009

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Traits link drought resistance with herbivore defence and plant economics in semi‐arid grasslands: The central roles of phenology and leaf dry matter content (2020, background): “Across broad environmental gradients, traits such as specific leaf area (SLA) and leaf longevity are related to precipitation (Ordonez et al., 2009; Wright et al., 2004), but much stronger relationships exist between drought tolerance traits and precipitation (Bartlett, Scoffoni, & Sack, 2012).”
From plant functional types to plant functional traits (2015, background): “Additionally, a global quantification of leaf traits reveals strong correlations between soil nutrient fertility, SLA and leaf nitrogen concentration (LNC) (Ordoñez et al., 2009).”
Leaf element concentrations of terrestrial plants across China are influenced by taxonomy and the environment (2012, background): “…allocation among organs and the concentration of elements associated with metabolism, or indirectly by influencing the leaf N or P concentration via changing soil biogeographical processes and vegetation composition (Körner, 1989; Wright et al., 2001, 2005b; Reich, 2005; Ordoñez et al., 2009).”
Early successional woody plants facilitate and ferns inhibit forest development on Puerto Rican landslides (2010, background): “Journal compilation 2010 British Ecological Society or decomposition rate; Ordoñez et al. 2009).”
How fundamental plant functional trait relationships scale‐up to trade‐offs and synergies in ecosystem services (2012, background): “Consistent with predictions, community LNC increased strongly with increasing site fertility (NNI, and to a lesser extent PNI; Garnier et al. 2007; Ordoñez et al. 2009), but decreased with increasing altitude, reflecting the increased dominance by species with more fibrous, nitrogen-poor leaves.”
Going beyond limitations of plant functional types when predicting global ecosystem–atmosphere fluxes: exploring the merits of traits‐based approaches (2012, background): “Within and between PFTs, vegetation attributes (and consequently ecosystem functions) differ strongly depending upon climate (Moorcroft, 2006), soil fertility (Ordoñez et al., 2009) and hydrology (e.”
The world‐wide ‘fast–slow’ plant economics spectrum: a traits manifesto (2014, background): “This view of the importance of soil P to plant economics is consistent with broad positive relations of leaf P to soil P (Ordo~nez et al. 2009) and root P to soil P (Yuan, Chen & Reich 2011) as well as with studies showing low photosynthetic gain per unit leaf N in species inhabiting low-P sites (Re”
Do alien plant species profit more from high resource supply than natives? A trait‐based analysis (2013, positive): “…or multivariate traits varied with both climatic and edaphic factors in a similar way to that reported on other works (e.g. Wright et al., 2005; Ordoñez et al., 2009), we also show how these associations did not change between native and alien plants (neither absolute nor directional trait…”
Tree growth changes with climate and forest type are associated with relative allocation of nutrients, especially phosphorus, to leaves and wood (2013, background): “INTRODUCTION How nutrient concentrations and stoichiometry in leaves (mainly C:N:P) vary along environmental gradients has received much attention in the last decade, both at regional (Ordoñez et al., 2009; Sandel et al., 2010) and global (Reich & Oleksyn, 2004) scales.”
Global quantification of contrasting leaf life span strategies for deciduous and evergreen species in response to environmental conditions (2012, methodology): “For nutrient status, the commonly applied soil N/C ratio, indicating the general quality of soil organic matter (Ordoñez et al., 2009), was used.”