Global patterns of intraspecific leaf trait responses to elevation.
altitude
carbon isotope ratio
environmental gradient
intraspecific variability
leaf nutrient content
meta-analysis
phenotypic variability
plant functional traits
Journal
Global change biology
ISSN: 1365-2486
Titre abrégé: Glob Chang Biol
Pays: England
ID NLM: 9888746
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
07 2019
07 2019
Historique:
received:
17
12
2018
accepted:
03
04
2019
pubmed:
6
5
2019
medline:
12
10
2019
entrez:
7
5
2019
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Elevational gradients are often used to quantify how traits of plant species respond to abiotic and biotic environmental variations. Yet, such analyses are frequently restricted spatially and applied along single slopes or mountain ranges. Since we know little on the response of intraspecific leaf traits to elevation across the globe, we here perform a global meta-analysis of leaf traits in 109 plant species located in 4 continents and reported in 71 studies published between 1983 and 2018. We quantified the intraspecific change in seven morpho-ecophysiological leaf traits along global elevational gradients: specific leaf area (SLA), leaf mass per area (LMA), leaf area (LA), nitrogen concentration per unit of area (Narea), nitrogen concentration per unit mass (Nmass), phosphorous concentration per unit mass (Pmass) and carbon isotope composition (δ
Substances chimiques
Phosphorus
27YLU75U4W
Banques de données
figshare
['10.6084/m9.figshare.7694453.v1']
Types de publication
Journal Article
Meta-Analysis
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
2485-2498Informations de copyright
© 2019 John Wiley & Sons Ltd.