Abstract:It is well known that evergreen and deciduous species have different
functional traits and utilize different strategies in growth and
adaptation to environments, however little work has been done to
elucidate whether leaf habit mediate the effect of trait-environment
interactions on plant performance. Here we wanted to illuminate whether
relative growth rate of deciduous and evergreen species depended on
multiple trait-environment interactions. We measured eight leaf traits
of 1230 individuals from 25 species … Show more
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