Leaf strategies and soil N across a regional humidity gradient in Patagonia

MB Bertiller, MJ Mazzarino, AL Carrera, P Diehl, P Satti… - Oecologia, 2006 - Springer
… sites across a regional humidity gradient in northern … humidity gradient is related to a shifting
in traits of green and senesced leaves with some overlapping among life forms, and (2) leaf

Patterns of morphological leaf traits among pteridophytes along humidity and temperature gradients in the Bolivian Andes

M Kessler, Y Siorak, M Wunderlich… - Functional Plant …, 2007 - CSIRO Publishing
gradients of elevation (temperature) and humidity. To assess how the representation of traits
such as degree of lamina dissection, leaf length, leaf … , and of adaptive strategies such as …

Diverging drought-tolerance strategies explain tree species distribution along a fog-dependent moisture gradient in a temperate rain forest

BS Negret, F Pérez, L Markesteijn, MJ Castillo… - Oecologia, 2013 - Springer
… Here we measured leaf and hydraulic traits for three dominant species with contrasting … a
small-scale moisture gradient. Drimys winteri, a tree restricted to the humid core, showed traits …

Reading the leaves' palm: leaf traits and herbivory along the microclimatic gradient of forest layers

S Stiegel, MH Entling, J Mantilla-Contreras - PloS one, 2017 - journals.plos.org
… traits are found in the literature and in our correlations of microclimate (temperature and
humidity) with SLA and leaf carbon content. Based on these findings, regulation of our studied …

Climate uncertainty on leaf surfaces: the biophysics of leaf microclimates and their consequences for leaf‐dwelling organisms

S Pincebourde, HA Woods - Functional Ecology, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Leaf microclimate, which includes temperature and humidity at the … Recent findings report
a latitudinal gradient in the temperatures of tree leaves, which can be linked to gradients in …

Stomatal opening ratio mediates trait coordinating network adaptation to environmental gradients

J Xie, Z Wang, Y Li - New Phytologist, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
humid, semihumid and arid) explain most trait variability in Siberian elm along environmental
gradients… the precipitation gradient in China (a) and the scheme for coordination of leaf

Trait patterns of epiphytes compared to other plant life‐forms along a tropical elevation gradient

D Schellenberger Costa, G Zotz, A Hemp… - Functional …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
… along parts of the elevation gradient for leaf area, leaf C and leaf P mass . SSD remained …
The temperature gradient in our study system is relatively large, but high relative humidity and …

Leaf adaptations of evergreen and deciduous trees of semi‐arid and humid savannas on three continents

KW Tomlinson, L Poorter, FJ Sterck… - Journal of …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
… One aspect of these patterns that has not been explored is how leaf traits of evergreen
and deciduous species change across gradients of moisture deficit severity. Seasonally dry …

Coordinated changes in photosynthesis, water relations and leaf nutritional traits of canopy trees along a precipitation gradient in lowland tropical forest

LS Santiago, K Kitajima, SJ Wright, SS Mulkey - Oecologia, 2004 - Springer
… to influence light availability and relative humidity. Average daily light availability decreases
… Mean relative humidity is highest on the wet Caribbean coast (94.6% at the 3,100 mm site); …

[HTML][HTML] Dynamics of leaf litter humidity, depth and quantity: two restoration strategies failed to mimic ground microhabitat conditions of a low montane and premontane …

Z Barrientos - Revista de Biología Tropical, 2012 - scielo.sa.cr
… litter decomposition to temperature: results from a large-scale leaf translocation
experiment along an elevation gradient in Peruvian forests. New Phytol. 189: 967-977 (también …