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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"leaf economics spectrum"”.
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Environmental Gradients Impact Key Leaf Traits in Riparian Trees
<p>Specific leaf area (SLA) reflects a plant’s carbon investment per area and relates to generalized leaf economics spectrum growth strategies (LES). To fill gaps of knowledge about intraspecific SLA variation and why it is often inconsistent with the LES, we studied the response of two riparian …
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COMPARATIVE ECOPHYSIOLOGY OF NATIVE AND INVASIVE PLANTS ACROSS POPULATIONS, SPECIES, AND CONTINENTS
… garden, I tested whether invasive species had leaf traits that were more plastic to seasonal changes in light availability. I found that invasive species were more plastic, but I found no evidence that their plasticity contributed to increased carbon assimilation across the growing season. …
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Functional traits and resource-use strategies of native and invasive plants in Eastern North American forests
… garden to control for environment, I measured leaf physiological traits relating to resource investments, carbon returns, and resource-use efficiencies in 14 native and 18 non-native invasive species of common genera found in ENA understories, where growth is presumably constrained by light and …