Leaf size of woody dicots predicts ecosystem primary productivity
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AbstractA key challenge in ecology is to understand the relationships between organismal traits and ecosystem processes. Here, with a novel dataset of leaf length and width for 10 480 woody dicots in China and 2374 in North America, we show that the variation in community mean leaf size is highly correlated with the variation in climate and ecosystem primary productivity, independent of plant life form. These relationships likely reflect how natural selection modifies leaf size across varying climates in conjunction with how climate influences canopy total leaf area. We find that the leaf size‒primary productivity functions based on the Chinese dataset can predict productivity in North America and vice‐versa. In addition to advancing understanding of the relationship between a climate‐driven trait and ecosystem functioning, our findings suggest that leaf size can also be a promising tool in palaeoecology for scaling from fossil leaves to palaeo‐primary productivity of woody ecosystems.
- University of Minnesota System United States
- Peking University China (People's Republic of)
- University of Minnesota Morris United States
- University of Minnesota United States
- Sichuan University China (People's Republic of)
UFSP13-8 Global Change and Biodiversity, Economics, Ecosystem ecology, Trait, Macroeconomics, Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Biodiversity Conservation and Ecosystem Management, Terrestrial ecosystem, Pathology, Climate change, 910 Geography & travel, Productivity, leaf area index, Ecology, Primary production, Leaf size, Annual evapotranspiration, Life Sciences, Evolution and Classification of Flowering Plants, Programming language, 10122 Institute of Geography, Physical Sciences, large-scale eco-evolutionary patterns, Medicine, Impact of Pollinator Decline on Ecosystems and Agriculture, leaves, ecosystems, Vegetation (pathology), palaeo-primary productivity, China, Evolution, evapotranspiration, Magnoliopsida, Behavior and Systematics, XXXXXX - Unknown, Letters, Biology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Ecosystem, Nature and Landscape Conservation, plant functional traits, Canopy, Computer science, Agronomy, community mean leaf size, Plant Leaves, 1105 Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, FOS: Biological sciences, North America, Environmental Science, Primary productivity, measurement
UFSP13-8 Global Change and Biodiversity, Economics, Ecosystem ecology, Trait, Macroeconomics, Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Biodiversity Conservation and Ecosystem Management, Terrestrial ecosystem, Pathology, Climate change, 910 Geography & travel, Productivity, leaf area index, Ecology, Primary production, Leaf size, Annual evapotranspiration, Life Sciences, Evolution and Classification of Flowering Plants, Programming language, 10122 Institute of Geography, Physical Sciences, large-scale eco-evolutionary patterns, Medicine, Impact of Pollinator Decline on Ecosystems and Agriculture, leaves, ecosystems, Vegetation (pathology), palaeo-primary productivity, China, Evolution, evapotranspiration, Magnoliopsida, Behavior and Systematics, XXXXXX - Unknown, Letters, Biology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Ecosystem, Nature and Landscape Conservation, plant functional traits, Canopy, Computer science, Agronomy, community mean leaf size, Plant Leaves, 1105 Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, FOS: Biological sciences, North America, Environmental Science, Primary productivity, measurement
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