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 …

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, …

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 …

Resolving whole‐plant economics from leaf, stem and root traits of 1467 Amazonian tree species

J Vleminckx, C Fortunel, O Valverde‐Barrantes… - Oikos, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
… In addition, we might predict coordinated selection on traits from different tissues that are …
2, suggesting an influence of species evolutionary history on the correlations among these traits …

Differing trade-off patterns of tree vegetative organs in a tropical cloud forest

Y Yang, C Xiao, X Wu, W Long, G Feng… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
… closely coordinate with leaf traits, rather than with stem traits, … of trees jointly developed a
fast-slow economic spectrum, in … evolution and ecological adaptation between leaf and stem (…

Functional traits indicate a continuum of tree drought strategies across a soil water availability gradient in a tropical dry forest

RK Chaturvedi, A Tripathi, AS Raghubanshi… - Forest Ecology and …, 2021 - Elsevier
leaf traits, for tree species in the three functional guilds in … in TDF species have been observed
to be co-ordinated by a set … estimates of stem biomass of two dominant species obtained …

[HTML][HTML] Limited evidence of coupling between above and belowground functional traits in tropical dry forest seedlings

R Arrieta-González, J Paez… - … de Biología Tropical, 2021 - scielo.sa.cr
… of leaf, root and stem traits of 38 species of seedlings from a … in 38 seedling species from a
tropical dry forest, we found limited … coordination between water storage capacity in stems and …

[HTML][HTML] Differential adaptation of lianas and trees in wet and dry forests revealed by trait correlation networks

C Liu, Y Li, N He - Ecological Indicators, 2022 - Elsevier
… P50 leaf and P50 stem values were cube-root transformed. LamT, LamFT, Ψ min , and Ψ tlp
… all species in both wet and dry forests, the economic traits leaf mass per area (LMA) and leaf

A plant economics spectrum of litter decomposition among coexisting fern species in a sub-tropical forest

D Lin, S Yang, P Dou, H Wang, F Wang, S Qian… - Annals of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
… Most leaf and root traits displayed high cross-species variation, … co-varied between leaves
and fine roots, suggesting co-ordinated … Our study further suggests that the evolutionary and …