Coordinated evolution of leaf and stem economics in tropical dry forest trees

R Méndez-Alonzo, H Paz, RC Zuluaga, JA Rosell… - Ecology, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
… With data from 15 species in eight families of tropical dry forest trees, we provide evidence
of coordination between the stem and leaf economic spectra. Species with low-density, flexible…

Decoupled leaf and stem economics in rain forest trees

C Baraloto, CE Timothy Paine, L Poorter… - Ecology …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
… One possibility, derived from plant life history theory, is that leaf and stem traits are
coordinated such that a single axis of variation explains most woody plant strategies. Under this …

Tropical dry forest trees and lianas differ in leaf economic spectrum traits but have overlapping water-use strategies

LK Werden, BG Waring, CM Smith-Martin… - Tree …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
leaf and stem traits for each species. Our objectives were to (i) determine if tropical dry forest
tree and liana species … have demonstrated that trees with different life history strategies (…

Unravelling the coordination between leaf and stem economics spectra through local and global scale approaches

SR Zeballos, MA Giorgis, M Cabido… - Austral ecology, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
… explored the coordination between leaf and stem economic spectra in a seasonally dry forest
in … in woody species from a tropical seasonal forest, particularly in traits related to hydraulic …

A plant economics spectrum in Mediterranean forests along environmental gradients: is there coordination among leaf, stem and root traits?

EG de la Riva, A Tosto, IM Pérez‐Ramos… - Journal of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
… that test the coordination among leaf, stem and root traits in … nature of a plant economics
spectrum at both the species and … and evolutionary context is a species pool of 38 woody plant …

[HTML][HTML] Contrasting patterns of leaf trait variation among and within species during tropical dry forest succession in Costa Rica

G Derroire, JS Powers, CM Hulshof… - Scientific Reports, 2018 - nature.com
… Our study also shows that traits like SLA and LPC, which are strongly coordinated within
the leaf economics spectrum (Supplementary Fig. S1) and show a high contribution of ITV to …

Leaf, stem and root tissue strategies across 758 N eotropical tree species

C Fortunel, PVA Fine, C Baraloto - Functional ecology, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
… traits coordinate with leaf and stem traits in Amazonian forests that … We further tested the
influence of species evolutionary histories on … and wood economics spectra is indeed a general …

[HTML][HTML] Above-and below-ground trait coordination in tree seedlings depend on the most limiting resource: a test comparing a wet and a dry tropical forest in Mexico

L Sanaphre-Villanueva, F Pineda-García, W Dáttilo… - PeerJ, 2022 - peerj.com
… and is dominated by a tropical dry forest that extends over low … dry forest selects for stronger
coordination among leaf, stem, … be related to water economy in the dry forest. Commonly in …

Coordination of leaf and stem traits in 25 species of Fagaceae from three biomes of East Asia

K Kawai, N Okada - Botany, 2019 - cdnsciencepub.com
… In a tropical dry forest, leaf and stem traits related to drought tolerance and construction cost
Coordinated evolution of leaf and stem economics in tropical dry forest trees. Ecology, 93(11…

Weak whole‐plant trait coordination in a seasonally dry South American stressful environment

JLA Silva, AF Souza, A Caliman, EL Voigt… - … and Evolution, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
… factor analyses main axis fit well with the global plant economic spectrum, with species
investing in small leaves and dense stems as opposed to species with softer stems and large …