ArticleEcology and evolution2025
Traits of the Leaf Economics Spectrum Do Not Always Relate to Species Biomass Proportions in Grassland Communities of Varying Diversity.
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- Leaf Trait Differentiations Depend on Plant Size in a Modular Assembled Community of Evergreen and Deciduous Trees From a Degraded Karst Forest Ecosystem.Ecology and evolution · 2026Article
- Traits of the Leaf Economics Spectrum Do Not Always Relate to Species Biomass Proportions in Grassland Communities of Varying Diversity.Ecology and evolution · 2025Article
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Abstract
Traits of the "leaf economics spectrum" (LES) relate to a functional trade-off between slow and fast return on carbon investment, but it is not clear whether the globally observed trait-relationships also hold in local plant communities. We studied four leaf traits associated with the LES in 20 grassland species, which represented different strategies in spatial resource acquisition (from small to large) and temporal resource acquisition (from early to late). Species were grouped into three partly overlapping pools of eight species to create a field experiment with 138 communities of varying species richness (1, 2, 3, 4, and 8 species), which either varied in spatial resource acquisition, temporal resource acquisition or both. Leaf nitrogen concentrations (N
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