Scaling relationship between leaf mass and leaf area: A case study using six alpine Rhododendron species in the Eastern Tibetan Plateau

Yang, Ketong; Chen, Guopeng; Xian, Junren; Yu, Xi; Wang, Li

doi:10.1016/j.gecco.2021.e01754

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“…So, leaf water content and dry matter content will gradually increase, and the increased rate of water content is higher than that of dry matter content. Consistent with Yang et al’s (2021) study, the fitness of LA–LFW is better than that of LA–LDW. Most plant—like evergreen and deciduous species have different hydraulic strategies and photosynthetic efficiency ( Niinemets, 2001 ; Cubino et al, 2021 ; Wang et al, 2021 ), which may lead to differences in leaf water content or dry matter content, and thus lead to divergences in LDW per unit area.…”

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“…By comparison, LDW increased continuously with the altitude, and then gradually convergent. The increase of leaf biomass with altitude may reflect the conservative strategy of leaves, that is, the harsher the environment, the more investment in leaf biomass ( Pan et al, 2013 ; Zhang et al, 2020 ; Yang et al, 2021 ). Abundant investment of leaf biomass promotes the denser mesophyll tissue, this not only helps prevent freezing injury but also reduces mechanical damage ( Niinemets, 2001 ; Nikita et al, 2018 ).…”

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“…During previous in situ surveys, we found that vegetation gradually changed from arid valley dwarf xerophytic shrubs, deciduous broad-leaved forests, to the evergreen coniferous forest and evergreen broad-leaved shrubs from 1,050 to 3,500 m ( Chen et al, 2021 ; Yang et al, 2021 ). We set up a transect along an elevational gradient and surveyed 26 plots of 20 m × 20 m at different altitudes ( Appendix 1 ).…”

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“…The annual sunshine duration is 1,398.4 h, and the sunshine percentage is 32.0%. The old-growth vegetation of GBR had been logged several decades ago and the regrowth of restored vegetation is well underway ( Yang et al, 2021 ).…”

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Varying Relationship Between Vascular Plant Leaf Area and Leaf Biomass Along an Elevational Gradient on the Eastern Qinghai-Tibet Plateau

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The altitudinal gradient is one of the driving factors leading to leaf trait variation. It is crucial to understand the response and adaptation strategies of plants to explore the variation of leaf traits and their scaling relationship along the altitudinal gradient. We measured six main leaf traits of 257 woody species at 26 altitudes ranging from 1,050 to 3,500 m within the eastern Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and analyzed the scaling relationships among leaf fresh weight, leaf dry weight, and leaf area. The results showed that leaf dry weight increased significantly with elevation, while leaf fresh weight and leaf area showed a unimodal change. Leaf dry weight and fresh weight showed an allometric relationship, and leaf fresh weight increased faster than leaf dry weight. The scaling exponent of leaf area and leaf fresh weight (or dry weight) was significantly greater than 1, indicating that there have increasing returns for pooled data. For α and normalization constants (β), only β of leaf area vs. leaf fresh weight (or dry weight) had significantly increased with altitude. All three paired traits had positive linear relationships between α and β. Our findings suggest that plants adapt to altitudinal gradient by changing leaf area and biomass investment and coordinating scaling relationships among traits. But leaf traits variation had a minor effect on scaling exponent.

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“…The annual sunshine duration is 1,398.4 h, and the sunshine percentage is 32.0%. The oldgrowth vegetation of GBR had been logged several decades ago and the regrowth of restored vegetation is well underway (Yang et al, 2021).…”

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Leaf functional traits: Ecological and evolutionary implications

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Geographical differences of leaf traits of the endangered plant Litsea coreana Levl. var. sinensis and its relationship with climate

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Scaling relationship between leaf mass and leaf area: A case study using six alpine Rhododendron species in the Eastern Tibetan Plateau

Cited by 11 publications

References 32 publications

Varying Relationship Between Vascular Plant Leaf Area and Leaf Biomass Along an Elevational Gradient on the Eastern Qinghai-Tibet Plateau

Varying Relationship Between Vascular Plant Leaf Area and Leaf Biomass Along an Elevational Gradient on the Eastern Qinghai-Tibet Plateau

Leaf functional traits: Ecological and evolutionary implications

Geographical differences of leaf traits of the endangered plant Litsea coreana Levl. var. sinensis and its relationship with climate

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