▪ Abstract An important aim of plant ecology is to identify leading dimensions of ecological
variation among species and to understand the basis for them. Dimensions that can readily …

Abstract Changes in the efficiency of light interception and in the costs for light harvesting
along the light gradients from the top of the plant canopy to the bottom are the major means …

科学家早已注意到, 具有长叶寿命的植物通常生长于营养和(或) 水分较为缺乏的环境,
而具短叶寿命的植物一般生长在具有较高的营养可利用性地带. 国外大量的实验研究结果表明 …

Despite striking differences in climate, soils, and evolutionary history among diverse biomes
ranging from tropical and temperate forests to alpine tundra and desert, we found similar …

Estimates of national-scale forest carbon (C) stocks and fluxes are typically based on
allometric regression equations developed using dimensional analysis techniques …

A primary objective of the Earth Observing System (EOS) is to develop and validate
algorithms to estimate leaf area index (L), fraction of absorbed photosynthetically active …

Physiological ecology of forest production was originally planned as a second edition to the
well-known book by the same name, published 25 years ago ( Landsberg 1986). The …

Global‐scale quantification of relationships between plant traits gives insight into the
evolution of the world's vegetation, and is crucial for parameterizing vegetation–climate …

Historically, tree biomass at large scales has been estimated by applying dimensional
analysis techniques and field measurements such as diameter at breast height (dbh) in …

Patterns in the dominance of evergreen vs. deciduous plants have long interested
ecologists, biogeographers, and global modellers. But previous models to account for these …