Comparative transcriptomics of tropical woody plants supports fast and furious strategy along the leaf economics spectrum in lianas

UU Sezen, SJ Worthy, MN Umaña, SJ Davies… - Biology …, 2022 - journals.biologists.com
… Liana leaves must have evolved adaptations to reduce … maybe a coordinated expression
pattern favoring a particular leaf … fully developed leaves from seedlings of tree and liana species

Trait evolution in tropical rubber (Hevea brasiliensis) trees is related to dry season intensity

K Rungwattana, P Kasemsap, T Phumichai… - Functional …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
… Overall, we expected the leaf and wood economics spectrum in Hevea … per clone for another
101 clones to analyse coordination of … In seedlings of the tropical dry forest species Quercus …

Growth synchrony between leaves and stems during twig development differs among plant functional types of subtropical rainforest woody species

F Meng, G Zhang, X Li, KJ Niklas, S Sun - Tree physiology, 2015 - academic.oup.com
… in TLA and stem length would evolve and thus characterize … coordination between the growth
of leaves and stems during … between leaf and stem growth differs among functional species

Functional traits determine trade-offs and niches in a tropical forest community

F Sterck, L Markesteijn, F Schieving… - Proceedings of the …, 2011 - National Acad Sciences
… of the evolutionary processes … tree species in a Bolivian tropical dry forest. The model
calculates the daily carbon gain on the basis of the hydraulic structure, stomatal coordination, and …

Seasonal gas exchange and resource-use efficiency in evergreen versus deciduous species from a tropical dry forest

E Ávila-Lovera, R Urich, I Coronel, W Tezara - Tree Physiology, 2019 - academic.oup.com
… was to understand the role of leaf carbon, nitrogen and water economics in the diversity of
… Besides soil water availability, stem hydraulic efficiency and leaf-level E determine the rate …

Stem and leaf hydraulics of congeneric tree species from adjacent tropical savanna and forest ecosystems

GY Hao, WA Hoffmann, FG Scholz, SJ Bucci… - Oecologia, 2008 - Springer
forest species in savanna is related in part to their ability to cope with drought, which is
determined more by leaf than by stem … l of stems and C probably reflects the coordination between …

[HTML][HTML] Soil resources and functional trait trade-offs determine species biomass stocks and productivity in a tropical dry forest

BL Caleño-Ruiz, F Garzón… - Frontiers in Forests …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
coordinated effects of soil resources and functional traits determine local biomass processes
of tropical dry forests with … We, therefore, measured leaf and stem traits of all tree species in …

The world‐wide 'fast–slow'plant economics spectrum: a traits manifesto

PB Reich - Journal of ecology, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
… For example, in studies of tropical wet and dry forest trees, … (k stem ) and wood density, for
tropical dry forest trees in … that coordinated multiple trait spectra exist for leaves, stems and …

Contrasting coordination of non‐structural carbohydrates with leaf and root economic strategies of alpine coniferous forests

P Zhang, J Ding, Q Wang, NG McDowell… - New …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
… 25 coniferous species across 90 populations of alpine forests on … and across species that
vary in life-history strategies. We … the magnitude and d13C signal of stem and soil CO2 fluxes. …

Leaf age and the timing of leaf abscission in two tropical dry forest trees

MV Gutiérrez-Soto, A Pacheco, NM Holbrook - Trees, 2008 - Springer
… ) and showed poor stem growth, perhaps as a result of low rainfall during leaf expansion. …
be primarily coordinated with leaf hydraulic conductance in a number of dry forest tree species (…