Leaf form and function - Towards a radical new approach

New Phytologist

Volumn 155, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 317-320

  Grubb, Peter J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Evergreen; Leaf dry mass per unit area (LMA); Leaf form; Leaf function; Vegetation types

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036720669     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1469-8137.2002.00491.x     Document Type: Note

References (27)

1. Herbivory and defensive leaf characteristics of tree species in a lowland tropical forest
2. Coping with water stress
3. 3 plants
4. Carbon dioxide diffusion inside leaves
5. The photosynthesis-nitrogen relationship in wild plants
6. Some growth points in investigative plant ecology
7. Sclerophylls, pachyphylls and pycnophylls: The nature and significance of hard leaf surfaces
8. A positive distrust in simplicity - Lessons from plant defences and from competition among plants and among animals
9. Adaptation and inertia in the Australian tropical lowland rain-forest flora: Contradictory trends in intergeneric and interspecific comparisons of seed size in relation to light demand
10. Photosynthetic nitrogen-use efficiency in leaves of woody and herbaceous species
11. Nutrient cycling in tropical deciduous forests
12. High foliar nitrogen in desert shrubs: An important ecosystem trait or defective desert doctrine?
13. Altitudinal variation in leaf diffusive conductance and leaf anatomy in heliophytes of montane New Guinea and their inter-relation with microclimate
14. Maximum leaf diffusive conductance in vascular plants
15. An ecological significance of evergreenness
16. Environmental and evolutionary constraints on the photosynthetic characteristics of higher plants
17. A cost-income model of leaves and roots with special reference to arid and semi-arid areas
18. Game-theoretical evolution of seed mass in multi-species ecological models
19. Generality of leaf trait relationships: A test across six biomes
20. Photosynthetic rates in relation to nitrogen cycling as an adaptation to nutrient deficiency in peat bog plants
21. Transpiration und wasserhaushalt in verschiedenen klimazonen. I. Untersuchungen an der arktischen baumgren ze in Schwedisch-Lappland
22. Strategy shifts in leaf physiology, structure and nutrient content between species of high- and low-rainfall and high- and low-nutrient habitats
23. Leaves at low versus high rainfall: Coordination of structure, lifespan and physiology
24. Convergence towards higher leaf mass per area in dry and nutrient-poor habitats has different consequences for leaf life span