Global patterns of the leaf economics spectrum in wetlands.
Journal
Nature communications
ISSN: 2041-1723
Titre abrégé: Nat Commun
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101528555
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
09 09 2020
09 09 2020
Historique:
received:
25
01
2020
accepted:
19
08
2020
entrez:
10
9
2020
pubmed:
11
9
2020
medline:
2
10
2020
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
The leaf economics spectrum (LES) describes consistent correlations among a variety of leaf traits that reflect a gradient from conservative to acquisitive plant strategies. So far, whether the LES holds in wetland plants at a global scale has been unclear. Using data on 365 wetland species from 151 studies, we find that wetland plants in general show a shift within trait space along the same common slope as observed in non-wetland plants, with lower leaf mass per area, higher leaf nitrogen and phosphorus, faster photosynthetic rates, and shorter leaf life span compared to non-wetland plants. We conclude that wetland plants tend to cluster at the acquisitive end of the LES. The presented global quantifications of the LES in wetland plants enhance our understanding of wetland plant strategies in terms of resources acquisition and allocation, and provide a stepping-stone to developing trait-based approaches for wetland ecology.
Identifiants
pubmed: 32908150
doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-18354-3
pii: 10.1038/s41467-020-18354-3
pmc: PMC7481225
doi:
Substances chimiques
Phosphorus
27YLU75U4W
Nitrogen
N762921K75
Banques de données
Dryad
['10.5061/dryad.v6wwpzgsq']
Types de publication
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
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