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"Diminishing returns" in the scaling of functional leaf traits across and within species groups

scholarly article

A continental-scale assessment of variability in leaf traits: Within species, across sites and between seasons

scientific article published in 2018

A global analysis of water and nitrogen relationships between mistletoes and their hosts: broad-scale tests of old and enduring hypotheses

article

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

article by Jenny C. Ordoñez et al published March 2009 in Global Ecology and Biogeography

A global trait-based approach to estimate leaf nitrogen functional allocation from observations

scientific article

A meta‐analysis of responses of C 3 plants to atmospheric CO 2 : dose–response curves for 85 traits ranging from the molecular to the whole‐plant level

scientific article published on 26 November 2021

A roadmap to plant functional island biogeography

scientific article published on 23 August 2021

A test of the 'one-point method' for estimating maximum carboxylation capacity from field-measured, light-saturated photosynthesis

scientific article

Acclimation of leaf respiration consistent with optimal photosynthetic capacity

scientific article published on 24 February 2020

An evolutionary perspective on leaf economics: phylogenetics of leaf mass per area in vascular plants

scientific article

Anatomical basis of variation in mesophyll resistance in eastern Australian sclerophylls: news of a long and winding path

scientific article published on 9 August 2012

AnimalTraits - a curated animal trait database for body mass, metabolic rate and brain size

scientific article published on 2 June 2022

Applying the economic concept of profitability to leaves

scientific article published on 08 January 2021

Are functional traits good predictors of demographic rates? Evidence from five neotropical forests.

scientific article

Are leaf functional traits ‘invariant’ with plant size and what is ‘invariance’ anyway?

article

Are species shade and drought tolerance reflected in leaf-level structural and functional differentiation in Northern Hemisphere temperate woody flora?

scientific article published on 21 July 2009

Assessing the generality of global leaf trait relationships

scientific article

Assessing the vulnerability of plant functional trait strategies to climate change

scientific article published on 09 April 2022

AusTraits, a curated plant trait database for the Australian flora ⬇️

publication published on 30 September 2021

BHPMF - a hierarchical Bayesian approach to gap-filling and trait prediction for macroecology and functional biogeography

article

Balancing the costs of carbon gain and water transport: testing a new theoretical framework for plant functional ecology

scientific article

Bark traits, decomposition and flammability of Australian forest trees

article

Biomechanical and leaf-climate relationships: a comparison of ferns and seed plants

scientific article published on 8 February 2014

Bivariate line-fitting methods for allometry

scientific article

Broad Anatomical Variation within a Narrow Wood Density Range--A Study of Twig Wood across 69 Australian Angiosperms

scientific article published on 23 April 2015

Burn or rot: leaf traits explain why flammability and decomposability are decoupled across species

article

Carbon Dioxide Uptake by an Undisturbed Tropical Rain Forest in Southwest Amazonia, 1992 to 1993

scientific article published in Science

Causes and consequences of variation in leaf mass per area (LMA): a meta-analysis

scientific article

Climate and soils together regulate photosynthetic carbon isotope discrimination within C3 plants worldwide

article

Climate warming and plant biomechanical defences: Silicon addition contributes to herbivore suppression in a pasture grass

article

Climatic and soil factors explain the two-dimensional spectrum of global plant trait variation

scientific article published on 23 December 2021

Comparisons of photosynthetic and anatomical traits between wild and domesticated cotton

scientific article published on 19 June 2021

Components of leaf-trait variation along environmental gradients

scientific article published on 21 March 2020

Connecting the Green and Brown Worlds

scientific article published in 2013

Controls on declining carbon balance with leaf age among 10 woody species in Australian woodland: do leaves have zero daily net carbon balances when they die?

article

Convergence in Maximum Stomatal Conductance of C Woody Angiosperms in Natural Ecosystems Across Bioclimatic Zones

scientific article published on 07 May 2019

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

scientific article published in 2002

Coordination of plant hydraulic and photosynthetic traits: confronting optimality theory with field measurements

scientific article published on 29 July 2021

Correction: Broad Anatomical Variation within a Narrow Wood Density Range-A Study of Twig Wood across 69 Australian Angiosperms

scientific article published on 25 September 2015

Correlations among leaf traits provide a significant constraint on the estimate of global gross primary production

article

Corrigendum to: New handbook for standardised measurement of plant functional traits worldwide

article

Corrigendum: Palaeo leaf economics reveal a shift in ecosystem function associated with the end-Triassic mass extinction event

scientific article published on 31 July 2017

Corrigendum: Three keys to the radiation of angiosperms into freezing environments

scientific article published in Nature

Corrigendum: Three keys to the radiation of angiosperms into freezing environments

scholarly article published in Nature

Cross-species patterns in the coordination between leaf and stem traits, and their implications for plant hydraulics

article

Cross-species relationships between seedling relative growth rate, nitrogen productivity and root vs leaf function in 28 Australian woody species

article

Detecting myrtle rust (Austropuccinia psidii ) on lemon myrtle trees using spectral signatures and machine learning

scholarly article by R. H. J. Heim et al published 13 February 2018 in Plant Pathology

Developing a spectral disease index for myrtle rust ( Austropuccinia psidii )

Differences in seedling growth behaviour among species: trait correlations across species, and trait shifts along nutrient compared to rainfall gradients

article

Diffusional conductances to CO2 as a target for increasing photosynthesis and photosynthetic water-use efficiency.

scientific article published on 14 May 2013

Disentangling coordination among functional traits using an individual-centred model: impact on plant performance at intra- and inter-specific levels

scientific article

Disentangling direct and indirect effects of island area on plant functional trait distributions

scientific article published on 24 May 2021

Eco‐evolutionary optimality as a means to improve vegetation and land‐surface models

scientific article published on 16 June 2021

Effects of plant hydraulic traits on the flammability of live fine canopy fuels

scientific article published on 10 February 2021

Enhanced photosynthetic nitrogen use efficiency and increased nitrogen allocation to photosynthetic machinery under cotton domestication

scientific article published on 20 October 2021

Environmental associations of abundance-weighted functional traits in Australian plant communities

scientific article published on 01 December 2021

Evidence for local adaptation to extreme heat across populations of a widespread tree from quantitative proteomics

scientific article published in 2018

Evidence of a general 2/3-power law of scaling leaf nitrogen to phosphorus among major plant groups and biomes.

scientific article published on 11 November 2009

Fame, glory and neglect in meta-analyses

scientific article published on 15 August 2011

Fibre wall and lumen fractions drive wood density variation across 24 Australian angiosperms.

scientific article

Fossil leaf economics quantified: calibration, Eocene case study, and implications

article published in 2007

Functional biogeography of Neotropical moist forests: Trait–climate relationships and assembly patterns of tree communities

scientific article published on 25 May 2021

Functional biogeography of angiosperms: life at the extremes

scientific article published on 30 March 2018

Functional differences between native and alien species: a global-scale comparison

article

Functional distinctiveness of major plant lineages

article

Functional diversity of the Australian flora: Strong links to species richness and climate

scientific article published on 26 March 2021

Functional traits and the growth-mortality trade-off in tropical trees

scientific article published on December 2010

Fundamental trade-offs generating the worldwide leaf economics spectrum

scientific article published on March 2006

Global climatic drivers of leaf size.

scientific article published on September 2017

Global convergence in the vulnerability of forests to drought.

scientific article

Global effects of soil and climate on leaf photosynthetic traits and rates

scholarly article by Vincent Maire et al published 7 April 2015 in Global Ecology and Biogeography

Global leaf nitrogen and phosphorus stoichiometry and their scaling exponent

Global patterns of foliar nitrogen isotopes and their relationships with climate, mycorrhizal fungi, foliar nutrient concentrations, and nitrogen availability.

scientific article published on 26 June 2009

Global patterns of leaf mechanical properties

scientific article

Global photosynthetic capacity is optimized to the environment

scientific article published on 04 January 2019

Global relationship of wood and leaf litter decomposability: the role of functional traits within and across plant organs

article

Global variability in leaf respiration in relation to climate, plant functional types and leaf traits

scientific article published on 8 January 2015

Gradients of light availability and leaf traits with leaf age and canopy position in 28 Australian shrubs and trees

article

Growing-season temperature and precipitation are independent drivers of global variation in xylem hydraulic conductivity

scientific article published on 10 December 2019

Half of the world’s tree biodiversity is unprotected and is increasingly threatened by human activities

scientific article published on 23 April 2020

High exposure of global tree diversity to human pressure

scientific article published on 16 June 2022

How do functional traits influence tree demographic properties in a subtropical monsoon forest?

scientific article published in 2022

Hydraulic failure and tree size linked with canopy die‐back in eucalypt forest during extreme drought

scientific article published on 25 February 2021

Impacts of trait variation through observed trait–climate relationships on performance of an Earth system model: a conceptual analysis

article

Incorporation of plant traits in a land surface model helps explain the global biogeographical distribution of major forest functional types

article

Interrelations among pressure-volume curve traits across species and water availability gradients

article

Intraspecific variation in soy across the leaf economics spectrum

scientific article published in 2019

Irradiance, temperature and rainfall influence leaf dark respiration in woody plants: evidence from comparisons across 20 sites

scientific article

Is there a latitudinal gradient in seed production?

article

Land-plant ecology on the basis of functional traits

scientific article

Leaf economics and plant hydraulics drive leaf : wood area ratios

scientific article published on 15 July 2019

Leaf manganese concentrations as a tool to assess belowground plant functioning in phosphorus-impoverished environments

scientific article published on 10 September 2020

Leaf mechanical strength and photosynthetic capacity vary independently across 57 subtropical forest species with contrasting light requirements

scientific article published on 13 April 2019

Leaf mesophyll diffusion conductance in 35 Australian sclerophylls covering a broad range of foliage structural and physiological variation

article

Leaf nitrogen from first principles: field evidence for adaptive variation with climate

article

Leaf nitrogen from the perspective of optimal plant function

scientific article published in 2022

Leaf phosphorus influences the photosynthesis-nitrogen relation: a cross-biome analysis of 314 species

scientific article

Leaf size estimation based on leaf length, width and shape

scientific article published on 18 June 2021

Leaf trait adaptations of xylem-tapping mistletoes and their hosts in sites of contrasting aridity

Leaf trait variation is similar among genotypes of Eucalyptus camaldulensis from differing climates and arises as plastic response to season rather than water availability

scientific article published on 07 April 2020

Leaf:wood allometry and functional traits together explain substantial growth rate variation in rainforest trees

scientific article published on 16 April 2019

Least-cost input mixtures of water and nitrogen for photosynthesis

scientific article published on 30 December 2002

Leaves at low versus high rainfall: coordination of structure, lifespan and physiology

scholarly article by Ian J. Wright & Mark Westoby published September 2002 in New Phytologist

Lifetime return on investment increases with leaf lifespan among 10 Australian woodland species ⬇️

scientific article published on November 8, 2011

Mechanisms underlying global temperature-related patterns in leaf longevity

scientific article published in 2013

Modulation of leaf economic traits and trait relationships by climate

article

Multispectral, Aerial Disease Detection for Myrtle Rust (Austropuccinia psidii) on a Lemon Myrtle Plantation

scientific article published on 7 March 2019

New handbook for standardised measurement of plant functional traits worldwide

article

Nitrogen concentration and physical properties are key drivers of woody tissue respiration

scientific article published on 03 March 2022

Nutrient concentration, resorption and lifespan: leaf traits of Australian sclerophyll species

article

Nutrient-rich plants emit a less intense blend of volatile isoprenoids.

scientific article

On the link between functional traits and growth rate: meta-analysis shows effects change with plant size, as predicted

article

Organizing principles for vegetation dynamics

scientific article published on 11 May 2020

Palaeo leaf economics reveal a shift in ecosystem function associated with the end-Triassic mass extinction event. ⬇️

scientific article

Paleoclimate and current climate collectively shape the phylogenetic and functional diversity of trees worldwide

preprint

Parenchyma Abundance in Wood of Evergreen Trees Varies Independently of Nutrients

scientific article published on 19 February 2020

Photosynthetic differences contribute to competitive advantage of evergreen angiosperm trees over evergreen conifers in productive habitats

scholarly article by Christopher H. Lusk et al published November 2003 in New Phytologist

Photosynthetic responses to altitude: an explanation based on optimality principles

scientific article published on 18 November 2016

Physiological and structural tradeoffs underlying the leaf economics spectrum

scientific article

Plant Ecological Strategies: Some Leading Dimensions of Variation Between Species

article

Plant hydraulics coordinated with photosynthetic traits and climate

scientific article published on 2 March 2021

Plant species traits are the predominant control on litter decomposition rates within biomes worldwide

scientific article

Predicting leaf physiology from simple plant and climate attributes: a global GLOPNET analysis

scientific article published on October 2007

Publisher Correction: Open Science principles for accelerating trait-based science across the Tree of Life

scientific article published on 01 April 2020

Quantifying leaf-trait covariation and its controls across climates and biomes

scientific article published in 2018

Relationships between leaf lifespan and structural defences in a low-nutrient, sclerophyll flora

scientific article published in 2001

Relationships between soil nutrient status and nutrient-related leaf traits in Brazilian cerrado and seasonal forest communities

article

Rising CO 2 and warming reduce global canopy demand for nitrogen

scientific article published on 22 April 2022

Rising CO2 drives divergence in water use efficiency of evergreen and deciduous plants

scientific article published on 11 December 2019

Safety margins and adaptive capacity of vegetation to climate change

scientific article published on 03 June 2019

Sapwood capacitance is greater in evergreen sclerophyll species growing in high compared to low-rainfall environments

article

Scaling of respiration to nitrogen in leaves, stems and roots of higher land plants

scientific article published in August 2008

Scaling up flammability from individual leaves to fuel beds

scientific article published in 2017

Scaling-up from leaf to canopy-aggregate properties in sclerophyll shrub species

article

Sensitivity of leaf size and shape to climate: global patterns and paleoclimatic applications.

scientific article

Short Communication: Leaf trait relationships in Australian plant species

article

Specific leaf area and dry matter content estimate thickness in laminar leaves

scientific article

Stem diameter growth rates in a fire-prone savanna correlate with photosynthetic rate and branch-scale biomass allocation, but not specific leaf area

scholarly article by Ian J. Wright et al published 20 November 2018 in Austral Ecology

Strategy shifts in leaf physiology, structure and nutrient content between species of high- and low-rainfall and high- and low-nutrient habitats

article

Summer solstice marks a seasonal shift in temperature sensitivity of stem growth and nitrogen-use efficiency in cold-limited forests

article

TRY - a global database of plant traits

scientific article (publication date: 21 June 2011)

TRY plant trait database - enhanced coverage and open access

scientific article published on 31 December 2019

The Open Traits Network: Using Open Science principles to accelerate trait-based science across the Tree of Life ⬇️

scientific article published on 17 February 2020

The biogeography and filtering of woody plant functional diversity in North and South America

article

The global spectrum of plant form and function

scientific article

The global spectrum of plant form and function: enhanced species-level trait dataset

scientific article published on 7 December 2022

The influence of plant traits on soil microbial communities varies between arid and mesic grasslands

scientific article published in 2024

The leaf size-twig size spectrum and its relationship to other important spectra of variation among species

scientific article published on 28 March 2003

The three major axes of terrestrial ecosystem function

scientific article published on 27 September 2021

The validity of optimal leaf traits modelled on environmental conditions

scientific article published on 29 October 2018

The worldwide leaf economics spectrum

scientific article (publication date: 22 April 2004)

Three keys to the radiation of angiosperms into freezing environments

scientific article with two erratum

To recycle or steal? Nutrient resorption in Australian and Brazilian mistletoes from three low-phosphorus sites

article

Towards a New Generation of Trait-Flexible Vegetation Models

scientific article published on 24 December 2019

Towards a thesaurus of plant characteristics: an ecological contribution

article

Towards a universal model for carbon dioxide uptake by plants

scientific article

Understanding ecological variation across species: area‐based vs mass‐based expression of leaf traits ⬇️

scientific article published on May 21, 2013

Understanding seedling growth relationships through specific leaf area and leaf nitrogen concentration: generalisations across growth forms and growth irradiance

scientific article published in 2001

Volatile isoprenoid emissions from plastid to planet

scientific article

Weak tradeoff between xylem safety and xylem-specific hydraulic efficiency across the world's woody plant species.

scientific article published on 17 September 2015

When and where soil is important to modify the carbon and water economy of leaves

scientific article published on 26 May 2020

Which is a better predictor of plant traits: temperature or precipitation?

article

Why are non-photosynthetic tissues generally13C enriched compared with leaves in C3plants? Review and synthesis of current hypotheses

article

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scientific article

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