Growing‐Season Precipitation Is a Key Driver of Plant Leaf Area to Sapwood Area Ratio at the Global Scale
Pengcheng He,
Qing Ye,
Kailiang Yu
et al.
Abstract:Leaf area to sapwood area ratio (AL/AS) influences carbon sequestration, community composition, and ecosystem functioning in terrestrial vegetation and is closely related to leaf economics and hydraulics. However, critical predictors of AL/AS are not well understood. We compiled an AL/AS data set with 1612 species‐site combinations (1137 species from 285 sites worldwide) from our field experiments and published literature. We found the global mean AL/AS to be 0.63 m2 cm−2, with its variation largely driven by … Show more
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