Venation networks and the origin of the leaf economics spectrum

Ecology Letters

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 91-100

  Blonder, Benjamin ^a   Violle, Cyrille ^a,b   Bentley, Lisa Patrick ^a   Enquist, Brian J ^a,c  

^a The University of Arizona   (United States)

^b CENTRE D ECOLOGIE FONCTIONNELLE ET EVOLUTIVE   (France)

^c SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Functional trait; Leaf life span; Leaf nitrogen content; LMA; Loopiness; Photosynthesis; Physiological tradeoff; Vein density; Vein distance; Venation network

Indexed keywords

CARBON; NITROGEN;

BIOME; CARBON BALANCE; COHORT ANALYSIS; ECOPHYSIOLOGY; GEOMETRY; LEAF; NITROGEN; NUTRIENT CYCLING; PALEOBOTANY; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; TRADE-OFF;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; HISTOLOGY; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT LEAF;

CARBON; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NITROGEN; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT LEAVES;

EID: 78751700062     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2010.01554.x     Document Type: Article

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