Convergence towards higher leaf mass per area in dry and nutrient‐poor habitats has different consequences for leaf life span

By I. Wright, M. Westoby, Peter B. Reich. 2002

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Subfields: Forestry, Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Plant strategies and trait trade‐offs influence trends in competitive ability along gradients of soil fertility and disturbance (2005, background): “Specific leaf area and leaf life span tend to be inversely related (Craine et al. 2002; Wright et al. 2002), and, as leaf life span and nutrient loss rates are inversely related (Berendse & Elberse 1990; Chapin 1980), this may”
Interrelations among pressure–volume curve traits across species and water availability gradients (2006, methodology): “Further details of study sites and species-selection criteria were given by Wright et al. (2001, 2002).”
Leaf-size divergence along rainfall and soil-nutrient gradients: Is the method of size reduction common among clades? (2003, background): “These relationships persist at lower rainfall and humidity, but are shifted to shorter leaf lifespan and higher leaf N at a given SLA ( Wright, Westoby & Reich 2002 ).”
Plant mineral nutrition in ancient landscapes: high plant species diversity on infertile soils is linked to functional diversity for nutritional strategies (2010, background): “High LMA values are typical for plants from nutrient-poor habitats (Beadle 1962, 1966; Lambers and Poorter 1992; Wright et al. 2002).”
Global quantification of contrasting leaf life span strategies for deciduous and evergreen species in response to environmental conditions (2012, background): “It was therefore expected that a high LLS of evergreen species would be associated with nitrogen and water stress (Aerts, 1995; Kikuzawa & Ackerly, 1999; Gerdol et al., 2000; Wright et al., 2002).”
Decline in photosynthetic nitrogen use efficiency with leaf age and nitrogen resorption as determinants of leaf life span (2003, background): “2001), although, for most leaf traits, between-species variation tends to be far greater than that within species (Wright et al. 2002).”
A fresh framework for the ecology of arid Australia (2011, background): “Infertility favours longer leaf life spans; doubling lifespan halves the yearly uptake of N and P needed to sustain a given area of leaf (Westoby et al., 2002; Wright et al., 2002).”
The Evolution of Plant Functional Variation: Traits, Spectra, and Strategies (2003, background): “Beadle NC 1966 Soil phosphate and its role in modeling segments of the Australian flora and vegetation, with special reference to xeromorphy and sclerophylly.”
Plant architecture: a dynamic, multilevel and comprehensive approach to plant form, structure and ontogeny. (2007, background): “…production has been stressed by several authors (Givnish, 1984; King, 1998; Diggle, 1999, 2002; Huber et al., 1999; Alpert and Simms, 2002; Novoplansky, 2002; Wright et al., 2002; Oborny, 2004; Sachs, 2004; Damascos et al., 2005; de Kroon et al., 2005; Pearcy et al., 2005; Wolfe and Mazer, 2005).”
Modulation of leaf economic traits and trait relationships by climate (2005, background): “For example, both regionally and globally, LL–LMA relationships tend to be shifted such that species from lower rainfall sites have shorter LL at a given LMA (Reich et al ., 1999; Wright et al ., 2002, 2004).”
Plant phenology, leaf traits and leaf litterfall of contrasting life forms in the arid Patagonian Monte, Argentina (2008, background): “High production costs of dense leaves are often compensated by long leaf life span, allowing an extended activity period with a more prolonged use of N in the plant (Aerts 1996; Westoby et al. 2002; Wright et al. 2002; Escudero & Mediavilla 2003; Kikuzawa 2004).”
Plant structural traits and their role in anti-herbivore defence (2007, background): “Certainly, indices of sclerophylly, such as LMA (Table 2), increase in value for nutrientpoor soils, full sunlight, higher elevations and drier climates (Diemer, 1998; Wright et al., 2002; Groom et al., 2004), an effect that can be induced experimentally (Groom and Lamont, 1997a).”