Does investment in leaf defenses drive changes in leaf economic strategy? A focus on whole-plant ontogeny

Ecological and evolutionary lability of plant traits affecting carbon and nutrient cycling

(2014) Lisa A. Donovan et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Environmental influences on growth and defence responses of the invasive shrub, Lonicera maackii, to simulated and real herbivory in the juvenile stage

(2013) Deah Lieurance et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Contrasting leaf trait scaling relationships in tropical and temperate wet forest species

(2013) Shuang Xiang et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Conservative leaf economic traits correlate with fast growth of genotypes of a foundation riparian species near the thermal maximum extent of its geographic range

(2013) Kevin C. Grady et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Mechanisms underlying global temperature-related patterns in leaf longevity

(2013) Kihachiro Kikuzawa et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Evidence for a ‘plant community economics spectrum’ driven by nutrient and water limitations in a Mediterranean rangeland of southern France

(2013) Ignacio M. Pérez-Ramos et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Ontogeny strongly and differentially alters leaf economic and other key traits in three diverse Helianthus species

(2013) Chase M. Mason et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Understanding ecological variation across species: area-based vs mass-based expression of leaf traits

(2013) Mark Westoby et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Correlations between physical and chemical defences in plants: tradeoffs, syndromes, or just many different ways to skin a herbivorous cat?

(2013) Angela T. Moles et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Photosynthetically relevant foliar traits correlating better on a mass vs an area basis: of ecophysiological relevance or just a case of mathematical imperatives and statistical quicksand?

(2013) Jon Lloyd et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Adaptive differentiation of traits related to resource use in a desert annual along a resource gradient

(2013) Larry C. Brouillette et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Trait correlation networks: a whole-plant perspective on the recently criticized leaf economic spectrum

(2013) Hendrik Poorter et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Global Leaf Trait Relationships: Mass, Area, and the Leaf Economics Spectrum

(2013) J. L. D. Osnas et al.   SCIENCE

A common genetic basis to the origin of the leaf economics spectrum and metabolic scaling allometry

(2012) François Vasseur et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Functional trait divergence of juveniles and adults of nineIngaspecies with contrasting soil preference in a tropical rain forest

(2012) Danielle T. Palow et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Biogeographic constraints on the world-wide leaf economics spectrum

(2012) J. Mason Heberling et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

NIH Image to ImageJ: 25 years of image analysis

(2012) Caroline A Schneider et al.   NATURE METHODS

How cellulose-based leaf toughness and lamina density contribute to long leaf lifespans of shade-tolerant species

(2012) Kaoru Kitajima et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Silicon concentration and leaf longevity: is silicon a player in the leaf dry mass spectrum?

(2011) Julia Cooke et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Chemical ecology of tannins and other phenolics: we need a change in approach

(2011) Juha-Pekka Salminen et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Putting plant resistance traits on the map: a test of the idea that plants are better defended at lower latitudes

(2011) Angela T. Moles et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Changes in plant chemical defenses and nutritional quality as a function of ontogeny in Plantago lanceolata (Plantaginaceae)

(2011) Carolina Quintero et al.   OECOLOGIA

The evolution of the worldwide leaf economics spectrum

(2011) Lisa A. Donovan et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

The Ontogeny of Plant Defense and Herbivory: Characterizing General Patterns Using Meta‐Analysis

(2010) Kasey E. Barton et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

The impact of tannins on protein, dry matter, and energy digestion in moose (Alces alces)

(2010) D. E. Spalinger et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

The resource availability hypothesis revisited: a meta-analysis

(2010) María-José Endara et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Current trends in the evolutionary ecology of plant defence

(2010) Anurag A. Agrawal   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Tissue-level leaf toughness, but not lamina thickness, predicts sapling leaf lifespan and shade tolerance of tropical tree species

(2010) Kaoru Kitajima et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Rainfall drives leaf traits and leaf nutrient resorption in a tropical dry forest in Mexico

(2010) Lyliana Y. Rentería et al.   OECOLOGIA

Ontogenetic changes in leaf phenology of two co-occurring Mediterranean oaks differing in leaf life span

(2009) Sonia Mediavilla et al.   ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH

Variations in leaf mass per area according to N nutrition, plant age, and leaf position reflect ontogenetic plasticity in winter oilseed rape (Brassica napus L.)

(2009) Alexandra Jullien et al.   FIELD CROPS RESEARCH

Correlated Evolution of Leaf Shape and Physiology in the Woody Sonchus Alliance (Asteraceae: Sonchinae) in Macaronesia

(2009) Louis S. Santiago et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PLANT SCIENCES

Leaf Trait Diversification and Design in Seven Rare Taxa of the Hawaiian Plantago Radiation

(2009) Stephanie Dunbar‐Co et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PLANT SCIENCES

Evidence of the ‘plant economics spectrum’ in a subarctic flora

(2009) Grégoire T. Freschet et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Macroevolution and the biological diversity of plants and herbivores

(2009) D. J. Futuyma et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A global study of relationships between leaf traits, climate and soil measures of nutrient fertility

(2008) Jenny C. Ordoñez et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Essential Oil Yield and Composition Reflect Browsing Damage of Junipers

(2008) Gábor Markó et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL ECOLOGY

Specialization pays off: contrasting effects of two types of tannins on oak specialist and generalist moth species

(2008) Tomas Roslin et al.   OIKOS