Tropical dry forest trees and lianas differ in leaf economic spectrum traits but have overlapping water-use strategies

LK Werden, BG Waring, CM Smith-Martin… - Tree …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
leaf and stem traits for each species. Our objectives were to (i) determine if tropical dry forest
tree and liana species … have demonstrated that trees with different life history strategies (…

A plant economics spectrum in Mediterranean forests along environmental gradients: is there coordination among leaf, stem and root traits?

EG de la Riva, A Tosto, IM Pérez‐Ramos… - Journal of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
… that test the coordination among leaf, stem and root traits in … nature of a plant economics
spectrum at both the species and … and evolutionary context is a species pool of 38 woody plant …

Unravelling the coordination between leaf and stem economics spectra through local and global scale approaches

SR Zeballos, MA Giorgis, M Cabido… - Austral ecology, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
… explored the coordination between leaf and stem economic spectra in a seasonally dry forest
in … in woody species from a tropical seasonal forest, particularly in traits related to hydraulic …

[HTML][HTML] Contrasting patterns of leaf trait variation among and within species during tropical dry forest succession in Costa Rica

G Derroire, JS Powers, CM Hulshof… - Scientific Reports, 2018 - nature.com
… Our study also shows that traits like SLA and LPC, which are strongly coordinated within
the leaf economics spectrum (Supplementary Fig. S1) and show a high contribution of ITV to …

[HTML][HTML] Above-and below-ground trait coordination in tree seedlings depend on the most limiting resource: a test comparing a wet and a dry tropical forest in Mexico

L Sanaphre-Villanueva, F Pineda-García, W Dáttilo… - PeerJ, 2022 - peerj.com
… and is dominated by a tropical dry forest that extends over low … dry forest selects for stronger
coordination among leaf, stem, … be related to water economy in the dry forest. Commonly in …

Coordination of leaf and stem traits in 25 species of Fagaceae from three biomes of East Asia

K Kawai, N Okada - Botany, 2019 - cdnsciencepub.com
… In a tropical dry forest, leaf and stem traits related to drought tolerance and construction cost
Coordinated evolution of leaf and stem economics in tropical dry forest trees. Ecology, 93(11…

Traits and trade-offs of wood anatomy between trunks and branches in tropical dry forest species

E Pulido-Rodríguez, R López-Camacho, J Tórres… - Trees, 2020 - Springer
… The wood economic spectrum is one of the most important … of traits in trunks since a
coordinated phenotype can respond to … parts such as stems or leaves that are expendable organs. …

Leaf habits and their relationship with leaf and wood traits in tropical dry forests

DR Ribeiro, JLA Silva, MT do Nascimento, AP Vitória - Trees, 2022 - Springer
economic spectrum in our dataset (Fig. 2A, B). There was an overlap in the functional spaces
(ie, convex hulls) of the leaf habits of species from tropical dry forests (… specific stem density, …

Resource partitioning by evergreen and deciduous species in a tropical dry forest

JC Álvarez-Yépiz, A Búrquez, A Martínez-Yrízar… - Oecologia, 2017 - Springer
… plant carbon and water economy and that likely influence SDTF species’ functional strategies
will … in hydraulic efficiency of stems and leaves derived from species’ phylogenetic history. …

[HTML][HTML] Tree species differ in plant economic spectrum traits in the tropical dry forest of Mexico

MV Alvarado, T Terrazas - Plos one, 2023 - journals.plos.org
… rate, life history and wood density (colonizing species of rapid growth and … As a coordination
of these two proxies, we name three distinct groups that … A study of the stems of C. vitifolium …