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Relating leaf traits to seedling performance in a tropical forest: building a hierarchical functional framework
dc.contributor.authorUmaña, María Natalia
dc.contributor.authorSwenson, Nathan G.
dc.contributor.authorMarchand, Philippe
dc.contributor.authorCao, Min
dc.contributor.authorLin, Luxiang
dc.contributor.authorZhang, Caicai
dc.date.accessioned2021-07-01T20:12:59Z
dc.date.available2022-08-01 16:12:57en
dc.date.available2021-07-01T20:12:59Z
dc.date.issued2021-07
dc.identifier.citationUmaña, María Natalia ; Swenson, Nathan G.; Marchand, Philippe; Cao, Min; Lin, Luxiang; Zhang, Caicai (2021). "Relating leaf traits to seedling performance in a tropical forest: building a hierarchical functional framework." Ecology (7): n/a-n/a.
dc.identifier.issn0012-9658
dc.identifier.issn1939-9170
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/168336
dc.description.abstractTrait‐based approaches have been extensively used in community ecology to provide a mechanistic understanding of the drivers of community assembly. However, a foundational assumption of the trait framework, traits relate to performance, has been mainly examined through univariate relationships that simplify the complex phenotypic integration of organisms. We evaluate a conceptual framework in which traits are organized hierarchically combining trait information at the individual‐ and species‐level from biomass allocation and organ‐level traits. We focus on photosynthetic traits and predict that the positive effects of increasing plant leaf mass on growth depend on species‐level leaf traits. We modeled growth data on more than 1,500 seedlings from 97 seedling species from a tropical forest in China. We found that seedling growth increases with allocation to leaves (high leaf area ratio and leaf mass fraction) and this effect is accentuated for species with high specific leaf area and leaf area. Also, we found that light has a significant effect on growth, and this effect is additive with leaf allocation traits. Our work offers an approach to gain further understanding of the effects of traits on the whole plant‐level growth via a hierarchical framework including organ‐level and biomass allocation traits at species and individual levels.
dc.publisherWiley Periodicals, Inc.
dc.publisherYunnan Science and Technology Press
dc.subject.otherrelative growth rates
dc.subject.otherspecific leaf area
dc.subject.otherseedlings
dc.subject.otherbiomass allocation traits
dc.subject.othercanopy openness
dc.subject.otherChina
dc.subject.otherleaf area
dc.subject.otherleaf thickness
dc.titleRelating leaf traits to seedling performance in a tropical forest: building a hierarchical functional framework
dc.typeArticle
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dc.subject.hlbsecondlevelEcology and Evolutionary Biology
dc.subject.hlbtoplevelScience
dc.description.peerreviewedPeer Reviewed
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dc.identifier.doi10.1002/ecy.3385
dc.identifier.sourceEcology
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