Trade-offs in interspecific comparisons in plant ecology and how plants overcome proposed constraints

Trade-offs

(2014) Theodore Garland   CURRENT BIOLOGY

A worldwide analysis of within-canopy variations in leaf structural, chemical and physiological traits across plant functional types

(2014) Ülo Niinemets et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Holocene semi-arid oak woodlands in the Irano-Anatolian region of Southwest Asia: natural or anthropogenic?

(2014) Eleni Asouti et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Coping with low light under high atmospheric dryness: shade acclimation in a Mediterranean conifer (Abies pinsapo Boiss.)

(2014) D. Sancho-Knapik et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

Why Do Some Evergreen Species Keep Their Leaves for a Second Winter, While Others Lose Them?

(2014) Peter Grubb et al.   Forests

Dissecting the cryoprotection mechanisms for dehydrins

(2014) Cesar L. Cuevas-Velazquez et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

Disturbance regimes, gap-demanding trees and seed mass related to tree height in warm temperate rain forests worldwide

(2013) Peter J. Grubb et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Making the best of the worst of times: traits underlying combined shade and drought tolerance of Ruscus aculeatus and Ruscus microglossum (Asparagaceae)

(2013) Alexandria Pivovaroff et al.   FUNCTIONAL PLANT BIOLOGY

Importance of leaf anatomy in determining mesophyll diffusion conductance to CO2 across species: quantitative limitations and scaling up by models

(2013) Magdalena Tomás et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

How do leaf veins influence the worldwide leaf economic spectrum? Review and synthesis

(2013) Lawren Sack et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Mesophyll conductance: internal insights of leaf carbon exchange

(2013) HOWARD GRIFFITHS et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

Anatomical basis of variation in mesophyll resistance in eastern Australian sclerophylls: news of a long and winding path

(2012) Tiina Tosens et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

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

(2012) Kaoru Kitajima et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Mesophyll diffusion conductance to CO2: An unappreciated central player in photosynthesis

(2012) Jaume Flexas et al.   PLANT SCIENCE

What Makes a Leaf Tough? Patterns of Correlated Evolution between Leaf Toughness Traits and Demographic Rates among 197 Shade-Tolerant Woody Species in a Neotropical Forest

(2011) Jared W. Westbrook et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Seed dispersal distance is more strongly correlated with plant height than with seed mass

(2011) Fiona J. Thomson et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

A mitochondrial late embryogenesis abundant protein stabilizes model membranes in the dry state

(2010) Dimitri Tolleter et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOMEMBRANES

A fundamental, eco-hydrological basis for niche segregation in plant communities

(2010) Yoseph N. Araya et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

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

Leaf Functional Anatomy in Relation to Photosynthesis

(2010) I. Terashima et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Evolutionary tradeoffs for nitrogen allocation to photosynthesis versus cell walls in an invasive plant

(2009) Yu-Long Feng et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Monocot Leaves are Eaten Less than Dicot Leaves in Tropical Lowland Rain Forests: Correlations with Toughness and Leaf Presentation

(2008) P. J. Grubb et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

In Tropical Lowland Rain Forests Monocots have Tougher Leaves than Dicots, and Include a New Kind of Tough Leaf

(2008) Nathaniel J. Dominy et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Interspecific variation in primary seed dispersal in a tropical forest

(2008) Helene C. Muller-Landau et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

The Enigmatic LEA Proteins and Other Hydrophilins

(2008) M. Battaglia et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY