Chlorophyll a fluorescence (ChF) signal analysis has become a widely used and rapid, non-
invasive technique to study the photosynthetic process under stress conditions. It monitors …

Plant functional strategies change considerably as plants develop, driven by intraindividual
variability in anatomical, morphological, physiological and architectural traits …

Climate warming is substantially shifting the leaf phenological events of plants, and thereby
impacting on their individual fitness and also on the structure and functioning of ecosystems …

Key message We suggest, based on data available for lignin content and Ψ 50, a limiting
relationship between embolism resistance and lignin content across various groups of seed …

Plants can be highly segmented organisms with an independently redundant design of
organs. In the context of plant hydraulics, leaves may be less embolism resistant than stems …

Leaf lamina mass and area are closely correlated with the photosynthetic capacity and
competitive ability of plants, whereas leaf age has been demonstrated to affect physiological …

The advent of new spaceborne imaging spectrometers offers new opportunities for
ecologists to map vegetation traits at global scales. However, to date most imaging …

Precise identification of plant species requires a high level of knowledge by taxonomists and
presence of reproductive material. This represents a major limitation for those working with …

Many leaf traits strongly vary with tree size and environmental factors, but the importance of
these factors to intraspecific variations of leaf traits in forest trees has rarely been …

Pine (Pinus) species exhibit extensive variation in needle shape and size between juvenile
(primary) and adult (secondary) needles (heteroblasty), but few studies have quantified the …