The importance of wood traits and hydraulic conductance for the performance and life history strategies of 42 rainforest tree species.

By Lourens Poorter, I. McDonald, A. Alarcón, E. Fichtler, J. Licona, M. Peña-Claros, F. Sterck, Z. Villegas, U. Sass-Klaassen. New Phytologist, 2010

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Fibre wall and lumen fractions drive wood density variation across 24 Australian angiosperms (2013, background): “For example, species with denser wood tend to experience lower stem mortality rates (Putz et al. 1983; Kraft et al. 2010; Poorter et al. 2010).”
On the link between functional traits and growth rate: meta‐analysis shows effects change with plant size, as predicted (2016, background): “…Villar et al. 2006; Baltzer & Thomas 2007; Cai et al. 2007; Cernusak et al. 2008; Chao et al. 2008; Moya & Tomazello 2008; Osone, Ishida & Tateno 2008; Poorter et al. 2008, 2010; Quero et al. 2008; Aiba & Nakashizuka 2009; Chave et al. 2009; Coomes et al. 2009; Easdale & Healey 2009; Rossatto et…”
Functional traits shape ontogenetic growth trajectories of rain forest tree species (2011, result): “This finding is consistent with a positive correlation between wood density and shade tolerance (Poorter et al. 2010).”
Competition, species interaction and ageing control tree mortality in boreal forests (2011, background): “…carbon gain in shaded environments (Niinemets & Valladares 2006); their thicker bark and higher wood densities make themmore resistant to disturbance agents (Poorter et al. 2010), and their higher carbohydrate storage in roots and stems leads to a quicker recovery from damages (Canham et al. 1999).”
Hydraulic conductivity traits predict growth rates and adult stature of 40 Asian tropical tree species better than wood density (2012, background): “Journal of Ecology 2011 British Ecological Society, Journal of Ecology, 100, 732–741 Adult stature was positively correlated with vessel diameter and potential hydraulic conductivity (Fig.”
Causes and implications of the correlation between forest productivity and tree mortality rates (2011, background): “Finally, the only two studies of which we are aware that directly correlated tree mortality rates to aspects of their hydraulic architecture under apparently typical field conditions found no significant correlations between the two (Poorter et al. 2010, Russo et al. 2010).”
Interspecific variation in functional traits, not climatic differences among species ranges, determines demographic rates across 44 temperate and Mediterranean tree species (2010, background): “In a recent study across 42 rain forest tree species, Poorter et al. (2010) found growth rate to be more tightly linked to WD than to xylem anatomical properties or hydraulic conductivity, to the point that the latter relationships actually disappeared when phylogenetic independent contrasts were…”
Spatial patterns of wood traits in China are controlled by phylogeny and the environment (2011, background): “Evolution of wood traits in trees can be accompanied by a change in xylem anatomy, since WD is significantly correlated with the proportion of parenchyma cells in the stem cross-section, fibre-cell wall thickness and vessel or tracheid size, which is related to the ecological strategies by controlli”
A trait‐mediated, neighbourhood approach to quantify climate impacts on successional dynamics of tropical rainforests (2016, background): “Our finding that over annual intervals the growth of large trees of species with higher wood density is less sensitive to daily water stress supports results elsewhere linking greater wood density with resistance to drought (e.g. Santiago et al. 2004; Phil- lips et al. 2010; Poorter et al. 2010).”
Being John Harper: Using evolutionary ideas to improve understanding of global patterns in plant traits (2018, background): “However, evidence for a relationship between wood density and hydraulic conductivity has been mixed (Chave et al., 2009; Poorter et al., 2010; Zhang, Cao, Fan, Zhang, 2013).”
Using functional traits and phylogenetic trees to examine the assembly of tropical tree communities (2012, background): “However, the trait-based approach is constrained by the number of pertinent traits that may be measured with accuracy (Poorter et al. 2009; Baraloto et al. 2010a; Kattge et al. 2011; Markesteijn et al. 2011), and by the ability to measure intraspecific trait variability (Baraloto et al.”