Assessing the generality of global leaf trait relationships.

By I. Wright, Peter B. Reich, J. H. C. Cornelissen, Daniel S. Falster, Eric Garnier, K. Hikosaka, B. Lamont, William Lee, J. Oleksyn, N. Osada and 4 more. New Phytologist, 2005

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Assessing the effects of land-use change on plant traits, communities and ecosystem functioning in grasslands: a standardized methodology and lessons from an application to 11 European sites. (2007, background): “Even if, say, a trait is theoretically responsive to a particular gradient, the detection of this response will depend on the range of variation in the environmental factors underlying this gradient (Wright et al., 2005).”
Functional leaf traits of vascular epiphytes: vertical trends within the forest, intra‐ and interspecific trait variability, and taxonomic signals (2016, neutral): “Interestingly, studies based on global trait data sets show that large-scale changes in climatic conditions only explained a small proportion of observed variation in leaf traits, while trait variation among coexisting species within study plots was relatively high (Wright et al. 2004, 2005).”
Plant functional type classifications in tropical dry forests in Costa Rica: leaf habit versus taxonomic approaches (2010, background): “Many evergreen species in temperate and boreal forests have long-lived needle-like leaves and many of the generalizations about leaf habit derived from literature syntheses compare needle-leaved evergreen species with broad-leaved deciduous species (Killingbeck 1996; Wright et al. 2005).”
A global study of relationships between leaf traits, climate and soil measures of nutrient fertility (2009, background): “…compilations have shed light on controls on nutrient cycling (Booth et al. , 2005), the convergence of plant functioning (Wright et al. , 2004), modulation of plant traits by climate (Wright et al. , 2005b) and patterns of leaf N and P in relation to climate and latitude (Reich & Oleksyn, 2004).”
Sources of variability in canopy reflectance and the convergent properties of plants. (2011, background): “…optimizing leaf-level C gain lead to convergence among traits such as leaf lifespan, leaf mass per unit area (LMA), allocation to defense, N concentrations, photosynthetic capacity and dark respiration, among others (e.g. Mooney & Gulmon, 1979; Reich et al., 1997, 1999; Wright et al., 2004, 2005).”