Are leaf functional traits 'invariant' with plant size and what is 'invariance' anyway?

Functional Ecology

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1330-1343

  Price, Charles A ^a   Wright, Ian J ^b   Ackerly, David D ^c   Niinemets, Ülo ^d   Reich, Peter B ^e,f   Veneklaas, Erik J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d ESTONIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Estonia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^f WESTERN SYDNEY UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Leaf area; Leaf economic spectrum; Metabolic scaling theory; Metabolic theory of ecology; Plant functional traits; Plant height

Indexed keywords

EID: 84908880194     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: 13652435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2435.12298     Document Type: Article

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