Lifetime return on investment increases with leaf lifespan among 10 Australian woodland species

Is analysing the nitrogen use at the plant canopy level a matter of choosing the right optimization criterion?

(2011) Niels P. R. Anten et al.   OECOLOGIA

Leaf-trait variation explained by the hypothesis that plants maximize their canopy carbon export over the lifespan of leaves

(2011) R. E. McMurtrie et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

Leaves of pioneer and later-successional trees have similar lifetime carbon gain in tropical secondary forest

(2010) N. Galia Selaya et al.   ECOLOGY

Functional traits and the growth–mortality trade-off in tropical trees

(2010) S. Joseph Wright et al.   ECOLOGY

Influence of four major plant traits on average height, leaf-area cover, net primary productivity, and biomass density in single-species forests: a theoretical investigation

(2010) Daniel S. Falster et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Controls on declining carbon balance with leaf age among 10 woody species in Australian woodland: do leaves have zero daily net carbon balances when they die?

(2009) Peter B. Reich et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Evidence of a general 2/3-power law of scaling leaf nitrogen to phosphorus among major plant groups and biomes

(2009) P. B. Reich et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES