Leaf structure and specific leaf mass: The alpine desert plants of the Eastern Pamirs, Tadjikistan

New Phytologist

Volumn 143, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 131-142

  Pyankov, Vladimir I ^a   Kondratchuk, Alexandra V ^a   Shipley, Bill ^b  

^a URAL FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Alpine vegetation; Mesophyll structure; Path analysis; SLA; SLM; Specific leaf area; Specific leaf mass; Structural equation modelling

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032790485     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1469-8137.1999.00435.x     Document Type: Article

References (43)

1. Araus J, Alegre L, Tapia L, Calafel R, Serret M. 1986. Relationships between photosynthetic capacity and leaf structure in several shade plants. American Journal of Botany 73: 1760-1770.
2. Barinov MG. 1988. Mesostructure of photosynthetic apparatus of plants from different climatic zones. Syvktyvkar: Komi Sientific Center of Urlas Branch Academy of Sciences of the USSR.
3. Bentler PM. 1995. EQS Structural Equations Program Manual. Encino, CA, USA: Multivariate Software, Inc.
4. Bollen KA. 1989. Structural equations with latent variables. New York, USA: Wiley.
5. Choong MF, Lucas PW, Ong JSY, Pereira B, Tan HTW, Turner IM. 1992. Leaf fracture toughness and sclerophylly: their correlations and ecological implications. New Phytologist 121: 597-610.
6. Czerepanov SK. 1995. Vascular plants of Russia and adjacent states (the former USSR). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
7. Ellsworth DS, Reich PB. 1992. Leaf mass per area, nitrogen content and photosynthetic carbon gain in Acer saccharum seedlings in contrasting forest light environments. Functional Ecology 6: 423-435.
8. Evans J, von Caemmerer S. 1996. Carbon dioxide diffusion inside leaves. Plant Physiology 110: 339-346.
9. 2 transfer conductance and leaf anatomy in transgenic tobacco leaves, Australian Journal of Plant Physiology 21: 475-495.
10. Field C, Mooney HA. 1986. The photosynthesis-nitrogen relationship in wild plants. In: Givnish J, ed. On the economy of plant form and function. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 25-55.
11. Gabriel KR. 1971. The biplot graphic display of matrices with application to principal component analysis. Biometrika 58: 453-467.
12. Garnier E, Laurent G. 1994. Leaf anatomy, specific leaf mass and water content in congeneric annual and perennial grass species. New Phytologist 128:725-736.
13. Goryshyna TK. 1989. Photosynthetic apparatus and adaptation of plant to environment. Leningrad, Russia Leningrad University Publishers.
14. Goryshyna TK, Hetsuriany LD. 1980. Peculiarities of photosynthesis apparatus in leaves of some plants of subalpine meadow, Central Caucasus. Soviet Journal of Ecology 11: 21-26 (in Russian).
15. Ikonnikov SS. 1963. Definitorium of the Pamirs plants. Donish: Dushanbe.
16. 2. Functional Ecology 8: 58-68.
17. Körner C, Bannister P, Mark AF. 1986. Altitudinal variation in stomatal conductance, nitrogen content and leaf anatomy in different plant life forms in New Zealand. Oecologia 69: 577-588.
18. Körner C, Neumayer M, Pelaez Mendez-Riedl S, Smeet-Scheel A. 1989. Functional morphology of mountain plants. Flora 182: 353-383.
19. Ladygina GM, Litvinova NP. 1966. Studies of vegetable communities in the Pamirs high mountains. Botanicheskii Zhurnal 51: 792-800 (in Russian).
20. Laisk A, Oja V, Rahi M. 1970. Diffusion resistance of leaves in connection with their anatomy. Fiziologiya Rastenii 47: 40-48.
21. Lavrenko EM. 1962. Basic features of botanical geography of Euro-Asian and North Africa deserts. Moscow/Leningrad, Russia: Academy of Sciences of the USSR (in Russian).
22. Longstreth DJ, Nobel PS. 1979. Salinity effects on leaf anatomy. Consequences for photosynthesis. Plant Physiology 63: 700-703.
23. Lucas PW, Pereira B. 1990. Estimation of the fracture toughness of leaves. Functional Ecology 4: 819-822.
24. Maranon T, Grubb PJ. 1993. Physiological basis and ecological significance of the seed size - relative growth rate relationship in Mediterranean annuals. Functional Ecology 7: 591-599.
25. Meziane D, Shipley B. 1999. Interacting determinants of specific leaf area in 22 herbaceous species: effects of irradiance and nutrient availability. Plant, Cell and Environment 22 (In press.)
26. Miroslavov EA, Kravkina IM. 1990a. Comparative anatomy of leaves of mountain plants at different elevations. Botanicheskii Zhurnal 75: 368-375 (in Russian).
27. Miroslavov EA, Kravkina IM. 1990b. The structural adaptation of chloroplasts and mitochondria to high mountain and extreme northern conditions. Soviet Journal of Ecology 21: 36-42 (in Russian).
28. Miroslavov EA, Kravkina IM. 1991. Comparative analysis of chloroplasts and mitochondria in leaf chlorenchyma from mountain plants grown at different altitudes. Annals of Botany 68: 195-200.
29. Mokronosov AT. 1978. Mesostructure and functional activity of photosynthetic apparatus. In: Mokronosov AT, ed. Mesostructure and functional activity of photosynthetic apparatus. Sverdlovsk, Russia. Urals State University, 5-31 (in Russian).
30. Mooney HA, Ferrer PJ, Slatyer RP. 1978. Photosynthetic capacity and carbon allocation patterns in diverse growth forms of Eucalyptus. Oecologia 50: 109-112.
31. Nobel PS, Walker DB. 1985. Structure of photosynthetic leaf tissue. In: Barber J, Baker NR, eds. Photosynthetic mechanisms and the environment. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Elsevier Science, 501-536.
32. Nobel PS, Zaragoza LJ, Smith WK. 1975. Relation between mesophyll surface area, photosynthetic rate and illumination level during development of Plectrantus parviflorus Henkel. Plant Physiology 55: 1067-1070.
33. Patton L, Jones MB. 1989. Some relationships between leaf anatomy and photosynthetic characteristics of willow. New Phytologist 111: 657-661.
34. Poorter H, Remkes C. 1990. Leaf area ratio and net assimilation rate of 24 wild species differing in relative growth rate. Oecologia 83: 553-559.
35. Pyankov VI, Ivanova LA, Lambers H. 1998. Quantitative anatomy of photosynthetic tissues of plant species of different functional types in arboreal vegetation. In: Lambers H, Poorter H, Van Vuuren MMI, eds. Inherent variation in plant growth, physiological mechanisms and ecological consequences. Leiden, The Netherlands: Backhuys Publishers, 71-87.
36. Pyankov VI, Kondrachuk AV. 1995. Specific features of structural organization of photosynthetic apparatus of plants of the Eastern Pamirs. Proceedings of the Academy of Sciences of Russia 344: 712-716 (in Russian).
37. Pyankov VI, Kondrachuk AV. 1998. Structure of the photosynthetic apparatus in woody plants from different ecological and altitudinal groups in Eastern Pamir. Russian Journal of Plant Physiology 45: 567-578.
38. Pyankov VI, Mokronosov AT. 1991. Physiology-biochemical basis of ecological differentiation of desert plants and problems of phytoamelioration in arid ecosystems. Problem of reclamation of desert 3-4: 161-170 (in Russian)
39. Shipley B. 1995. Structured interspecific determinants of specific leaf area in 34 species of herbaceous angiosperms. Functional Ecology 9: 312-319.
40. Shipley B, Meziane D. 1998. The statistical modelling of plant growth and its components using structural equations. In: Lambers H, Poorter H, Van Vuuren MMI, eds. Inherent variation in plant growth, physiological mechanisms and ecological consequences. Leiden, The Netherlands: Backhuys Publishers, 393-408.
41. Shipley B, Keddy PA, Moore DRJ, Lemky K. 1989. Regeneration and establishment strategies of emergent macrophytes. Journal of Ecology 77: 1093-1110.
42. Tselniker YL. 1978. The physiological basis of tolerance of tree plants to shadow. Moscow, Russia: Nauka (in Russian).
43. Wiltkowski ETF, Lamont BB. 1991. Leaf specific mass confounds leaf density and thickness. Oecologia 88: 486-493.