Taxonomic, phylogenetic, and environmental trade-offs between leaf productivity and persistence

Ecology

Volumn 90, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 2779-2791

  He, Jin Sheng ^a   Wang, Xiangping ^a   Flynn, Dan F B ^a,b   Wang, Liang ^a   Schmid, Bernhard ^c   Fang, Jingyun ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

China; Covariance partitioning; Functional traits; Grassland; Inner mongolia; Leaf tradeoffs; Taxonomic phylogenetic constraints; Tibetan Plateau; Xinjiang

Indexed keywords

BIOME; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; GRASSLAND; NUTRIENT USE; PERSISTENCE; PHYLOGENETICS; PLANT COMMUNITY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SPECIES RICHNESS; TAXONOMY;

ARTICLE; CHINA; CLASSIFICATION; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; PLANT LEAF; SOIL;

CHINA; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; PHYLOGENY; PLANT LEAVES; PLANTS; SOIL;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

EID: 70349937802     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/08-1126.1     Document Type: Article

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