ArticleFrontiers in plant science2022
Diminishing returns: A comparison between fresh mass vs. area and dry mass vs. area in deciduous species.
Article in Frontiers in plant science, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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- Fine-Scale Spatial Genetic Structure and Leaf Shape Variation in Five Fagaceae Species: Insights Into Conservation and Adaptation.Ecology and evolution · 2026Article
- The "Leafing Intensity Premium" Hypothesis and the Scaling Relationships of the Functional Traits of Bamboo Species.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Comparison of four performance models in quantifying the inequality of leaf and fruit size distribution.Ecology and evolution · 2024Article
- Leaf-age and petiole biomass play significant roles in leaf scaling theory.Frontiers in plant science · 2023Article
- "Diminishing returns" and leaf area-biomass scaling of ferns in subtropical ecosystems.Frontiers in plant science · 2023Article
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Abstract
"Diminishing returns" in leaf economics occurs when increases in lamina mass (
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