Abstract Background and Aims Biomass partitioning for resource conservation might affect
plant allometry, accounting for a substantial amount of unexplained variation in existing …

Plant diversity can increase biomass production in plot‐scale studies, but applying these
results to ecosystem carbon (C) storage at larger spatial and temporal scales remains …

The allocation of nonstructural carbon (NSC) to growth, metabolism and storage remains
poorly understood, but is critical for the prediction of stress tolerance and mortality. We used …

Carbon is fixed in forests worldwide, where large pools are stored in the woody tissues of
trees. After assimilation via photosynthesis, its products are transported through the phloem …

We present a model that scales from the physiological and structural traits of individual trees
competing for light and nitrogen across a gradient of soil nitrogen to their community-level …

Carbohydrate reserve storage in trees is usually considered a passive function, essentially
buffering temporary discrepancies between carbon availability and demand in the annual …

Despite non-structural carbohydrate (NSC) importance for tree productivity and resilience,
little is known about their seasonal regulations and trade-off with growth and reproduction …

Previous research suggests that the lifetime carbon gain of a leaf is constrained by a tradeoff
between metabolism and longevity. The biophysical reasons underlying this tradeoff are not …

Late frost can destroy the photosynthetic apparatus of trees. We hypothesized that this can
alter the normal cyclic dynamics of C‐reserves in the wood. We measured soluble sugar …

Plant ecology in recent years has focused on functional traits (Westoby & Wright, 2006;
Swenson & Enquist, 2007; Chave et al, 2009; Cornwell & Ackerly, 2009)-pheno typic …