Leaf economics and plant hydraulics drive leaf : wood area ratios

Modelling water fluxes in plants: from tissues to biosphere

(2019) Maurizio Mencuccini et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Hydraulic traits are coordinated with maximum plant height at the global scale

(2019) Hui Liu et al.   Science Advances

A meta-analysis of plant responses to light intensity for 70 traits ranging from molecules to whole plant performance

(2019) Hendrik Poorter et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Correlation between leaf size and hydraulic architecture in five compound-leaved tree species of a temperate forest in NE China

(2018) Jia Song et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Water transport through tall trees: A vertically explicit, analytical model of xylem hydraulic conductance in stems

(2018) Valentin Couvreur et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

Plant height and hydraulic vulnerability to drought and cold

(2018) Mark E. Olson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

When Short Stature Is an Asset in Trees

(2018) Alex Fajardo et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Divergence in strategies for coping with winter embolism among co-occurring temperate tree species: the role of positive xylem pressure, wood type and tree stature

(2017) Cun-Yang Niu et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Climate, soil and plant functional types as drivers of global fine-root trait variation

(2017) Grégoire T. Freschet et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Tree size and climatic water deficit control root to shoot ratio in individual trees globally

(2017) Alicia Ledo et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Global climatic drivers of leaf size

(2017) Ian J. Wright et al.   SCIENCE

Convergence in leaf size versus twig leaf area scaling: do plants optimize leaf area partitioning?

(2016) Duncan D. Smith et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

A global method for calculating plant CSR ecological strategies applied across biomes world-wide

(2016) Simon Pierce et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Leaf mass per area, not total leaf area, drives differences in above-ground biomass distribution among woody plant functional types

(2016) Remko A. Duursma et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Leaf development and demography explain photosynthetic seasonality in Amazon evergreen forests

(2016) J. Wu et al.   SCIENCE

Allometric Trajectories and “Stress”: A Quantitative Approach

(2016) Tommaso Anfodillo et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

Trubs, but no trianas: filled and empty regions of angiosperm stem length-diameter-mechanics space

(2015) Matiss Castorena et al.   BOTANICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Foliar trait contrasts between African forest and savanna trees: genetic versus environmental effects

(2015) Franziska Schrodt et al.   FUNCTIONAL PLANT BIOLOGY

The global spectrum of plant form and function

(2015) Sandra Díaz et al.   NATURE

Weak tradeoff between xylem safety and xylem-specific hydraulic efficiency across the world's woody plant species

(2015) Sean M. Gleason et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

How does biomass distribution change with size and differ among species? An analysis for 1200 plant species from five continents

(2015) Hendrik Poorter et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Morphological and moisture availability controls of the leaf area-to-sapwood area ratio: analysis of measurements on Australian trees

(2015) Henrique Furstenau Togashi et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Modeling plant-water interactions: an ecohydrological overview from the cell to the global scale

(2015) Simone Fatichi et al.   Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Water

lavaan: AnRPackage for Structural Equation Modeling

(2015) Yves Rosseel   Journal of Statistical Software

Broad Anatomical Variation within a Narrow Wood Density Range—A Study of Twig Wood across 69 Australian Angiosperms

(2015) Kasia Ziemińska et al.   PLoS One

Universal hydraulics of the flowering plants: vessel diameter scales with stem length across angiosperm lineages, habits and climates

(2014) Mark E. Olson et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

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

Temperature drives global patterns in forest biomass distribution in leaves, stems, and roots

(2014) P. B. Reich et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Biogeographic variation in evergreen conifer needle longevity and impacts on boreal forest carbon cycle projections

(2014) P. B. Reich et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Competition for Water and Light in Closed-Canopy Forests: A Tractable Model of Carbon Allocation with Implications for Carbon Sinks

(2013) Caroline E. Farrior et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Three keys to the radiation of angiosperms into freezing environments

(2013) Amy E. Zanne et al.   NATURE

Hydraulic limits on maximum plant transpiration and the emergence of the safety-efficiency trade-off

(2013) Stefano Manzoni 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

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

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

Stem xylem conductivity is key to plant water balance across Australian angiosperm species

(2012) Sean M. Gleason et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Global convergence in the vulnerability of forests to drought

(2012) Brendan Choat et al.   NATURE

Plant hydraulics and photosynthesis of 34 woody species from different successional stages of subtropical forests

(2012) SHI-DAN ZHU et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

Modeling carbon allocation in trees: a search for principles

(2012) O. Franklin et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

taxonstand: An r package for species names standardisation in vegetation databases

(2012) Luis Cayuela et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

TRY - a global database of plant traits

(2011) J. KATTGE et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Xylem traits mediate a trade-off between resistance to freeze-thaw-induced embolism and photosynthetic capacity in overwintering evergreens

(2011) Brendan Choat et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Biomass allocation to leaves, stems and roots: meta-analyses of interspecific variation and environmental control

(2011) Hendrik Poorter et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Worldwide correlations of mechanical properties and green wood density

(2010) Karl J. Niklas et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

A review of light interception in plant stands from leaf to canopy in different plant functional types and in species with varying shade tolerance

(2010) Ülo Niinemets   ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH

Mind the bubbles: achieving stable measurements of maximum hydraulic conductivity through woody plant samples

(2010) Susana Espino et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Hydraulic trade-offs and space filling enable better predictions of vascular structure and function in plants

(2010) V. M. Savage et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Universal foliage-stem scaling across environments and species in dicot trees: plasticity, biomechanics and Corner’s Rules

(2009) Mark E. Olson et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Towards a worldwide wood economics spectrum

(2009) Jerome Chave et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Climate change mitigation through afforestation/reforestation: A global analysis of hydrologic impacts with four case studies

(2008) Antonio Trabucco et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Using multiple trait associations to define hydraulic functional types in plant communities of south-western Australia

(2008) Patrick J. Mitchell et al.   OECOLOGIA