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List of works by Christopher Lusk

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The worldwide leaf economics spectrum

scientific article (publication date: 22 April 2004)

Modulation of leaf economic traits and trait relationships by climate

article

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

scientific article

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

scientific article published on 8 January 2015

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

scientific article published on October 2007

Why are evergreen leaves so contrary about shade?

scientific article published on 23 April 2008

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

scientific article

Leaf area accumulation helps juvenile evergreen trees tolerate shade in a temperate rainforest

scientific article published on July 2002

Global meta-analysis shows that relationships of leaf mass per area with species shade tolerance depend on leaf habit and ontogeny

scientific article

BAAD: a Biomass And Allometry Database for woody plants

article

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

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

article published in 2007

Ontogeny, understorey light interception and simulated carbon gain of juvenile rainforest evergreens differing in shade tolerance

scientific article

Paleo-Antarctic rainforest into the modern Old World tropics: the rich past and threatened future of the "southern wet forest survivors".

scientific article published on 21 November 2014

Resource limitation, tolerance, and the future of ecological plant classification

scientific article

Reconciling species-level vs plastic responses of evergreen leaf structure to light gradients: shade leaves punch above their weight

scientific article published on 23 February 2010

Natural selection on ecophysiological traits of a fern species in a temperate rainforest

article

Light requirements of Australian tropical vs. cool-temperate rainforest tree species show different relationships with seedling growth and functional traits

scientific article published on 21 December 2012

Seedlings of temperate rainforest conifer and angiosperm trees differ in leaf area display

scientific article

Becoming less tolerant with age: sugar maple, shade, and ontogeny

scientific article published on 30 August 2015

Trade-offs in juvenile growth potential vs. shade tolerance among subtropical rain forest trees on soils of contrasting fertility

scholarly article by Kerrie M. Sendall et al published 16 October 2015 in Functional Ecology

Coupled use of sediment phosphorus speciation and pigment composition to infer phytoplankton phenology over 700 years in a deep oligotrophic lake

article

Leaf functional trait variation in a humid temperate forest, and relationships with juvenile tree light requirements

scientific article published in 2019

Structure and dynamics of alluvial forest in the Pohangina Valley

1984 master's thesis by Christopher Harley Lusk at Massey University

Intraspecific trait variation can weaken interspecific trait correlations when assessing the whole-plant economic spectrum.

scientific article published on 21 September 2017

Frost and leaf-size gradients in forests: global patterns and experimental evidence

scientific article published on 16 May 2018

A bounded null model explains juvenile tree community structure along light availability gradients in a temperate rain forest

scientific article published in 2006

Regeneration patterns, environmental filtering and tree species coexistence in a temperate forest

scientific article published on 2 September 2016

Age structure and dynamics of podocarp/broadleaved forest in Tongariro National Park

1989 doctoral thesis by Christopher Harley Lusk at University of Auckland

Differential photosynthetic and survival responses to soil drought in two evergreenNothofagusspecies

article

XYLEMANATOMYOF BETULAPENDULA ROTHSAPLINGS: RELATIONSHIP TO PHYSICAL VASCULAR MODELS

article published in 2008

Soil nutrient availability and understorey composition beneath plantations of ecto- and arbuscular mycorrhizal Chilean native trees

scientific article published on 2 March 2024

Quaternary climate change explains global patterns of tree beta-diversity

preprint

Size-related shifts in carbon gain and growth responses to light differ among rainforest evergreens of contrasting shade tolerance

scientific article published on 10 April 2018

AusTraits, a curated plant trait database for the Australian flora

publication published on 30 September 2021

The role of the peat seed bank in plant community dynamics of a fire‐prone New Zealand restiad bog

scientific article published in 2022

Macroclimate and Topography Interact to Influence the Abundance of Divaricate Plants in New Zealand

scientific article published on 19 May 2020

Editorial

A dated phylogeny shows Plio‐Pleistocene climates spurred evolution of antibrowsing defences in the New Zealand flora

scientific article published in 2021

Dynamics of southern beech (Nothofagaceae) stands in the lowland North Island of New Zealand

scientific article published on 24 November 2021

Canopy structure and understorey light availability in Nothofagus and podocarp-broadleaf stands in a New Zealand forest

scientific article published on 7 August 2023

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

scientific article published on 8 February 2014

Differential effects of elevation on leaf size of overstorey and understorey species in a temperate rainforest

scientific article published on 30 January 2019

A conifer-angiosperm divergence in the growth vs. shade tolerance trade-off underlies the dynamics of a New Zealand warm-temperate rain forest

scientific article published on 23 December 2014

Editorial

WHEN IS A GAP NOT A GAP?: LIGHT LEVELS AND LEAF AREA INDEX IN BAMBOO-FILLED GAPS IN A CHILEAN RAIN FOREST

scientific article published in 2001

High exposure of global tree diversity to human pressure

scientific article published on 16 June 2022

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scientific article published in 2003

Seed size, establishment sites and species coexistence in a Chilean rain forest

scientific article published on 07 May 2006

Global relationships in tree functional traits

scientific article published on 08 June 2022