Shade, in ecological sense, is not merely a lack of light, but a multi-faceted phenomenon
that creates new and complex settings for community and ecosystem dynamics. Tolerating …

Light gradients are ubiquitous in nature, so all plants are exposed to some degree of shade
during their lifetime. The minimum light required for survival, shade tolerance, is a crucial life …

Leaf dark respiration (Rdark) is an important yet poorly quantified component of the global
carbon cycle. Given this, we analyzed a new global database of Rdark and associated leaf …

Plant respiration constitutes a massive carbon flux to the atmosphere, and a major control on
the evolution of the global carbon cycle. It therefore has the potential to modulate levels of …

Contents Summary 670 I. Introduction 671 II. Principle 1–Plant respiration performs three
distinct functions 673 III. Principle 2–Metabolic pathway flexibility underlies plant respiratory …

The leaf economics spectrum is a general concept describing coordinated variation in
foliage structural, chemical and physiological traits across resource gradients. Yet, within …

Warming‐induced release of CO2 from the large carbon (C) stores in arctic soils could
accelerate climate change. However, declines in the response of soil respiration to warming …

We tested whether snow gum (E ucalyptus pauciflora) trees growing in thermally contrasting
environments exhibit generalizable temperature (T) response functions of leaf respiration …

We explored the impact of canopy position on leaf respiration (R) and associated traits in
tree and shrub species growing in a lowland tropical rainforest in Far North Queensland …

Understanding the impacts of atmospheric [CO2] and drought on leaf respiration (R) and its
response to changes in temperature is critical to improve predictions of plant carbon …