Authors
Michael Kleyer, Juliane Trinogga, Miguel A Cebrián‐Piqueras, Anastasia Trenkamp, Camilla Fløjgaard, Rasmus Ejrnæs, Tjeerd J Bouma, Vanessa Minden, Martin Maier, Jasmin Mantilla‐Contreras, Dirk C Albach, Bernd Blasius
Publication date
2019/3
Journal
Journal of Ecology
Volume
107
Issue
2
Pages
829-842
Description
- Correlations among plant traits often reflect important trade‐offs or allometric relationships in biological functions like carbon gain, support, water uptake, and reproduction that are associated with different plant organs. Whether trait correlations can be aggregated to “spectra” or “leading dimensions,” whether these dimensions are consistent across plant organs, spatial scale, and growth forms are still open questions.
- To illustrate the current state of knowledge, we constructed a network of published trait correlations associated with the “leaf economics spectrum,” “biomass allocation dimension,” “seed dimension,” and carbon and nitrogen concentrations. This literature‐based network was compared to a network based on a dataset of 23 traits from 2,530 individuals of 126 plant species from 381 plots in Northwest Europe.
- The observed network comprised more significant correlations than the literature‐based …
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