Background Investigating the causes and consequences of intraspecific trait variation (ITV)
in plants is not novel, as it has long been recognized that such variation shapes biotic and …

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, and the global spectrum of plant forms and functions revealed
fundamental axes of variation in plant traits, which represent different ecological strategies …

We introduce the AusTraits database-a compilation of values of plant traits for taxa in the
Australian flora (hereafter AusTraits). AusTraits synthesises data on 448 traits across 28,640 …

Globally, forests are facing an increasing risk of mass tree mortality events associated with
extreme droughts and higher temperatures. Hydraulic dysfunction is considered a key …

Plant trait variability, emerging from eco-evolutionary dynamics that range from alleles to
macroecological scales, is one of the most elusive, but possibly most consequential, aspects …

Compression of life zones along elevational gradients in mountains supports diverse
vegetation types, and therefore offers ideal setting to study plant functional traits. Functional …

Abstract “Least‐cost theory” posits that C3 plants should balance rates of photosynthetic
water loss and carboxylation in relation to the relative acquisition and maintenance costs of …

Field spectroscopy is a powerful tool for monitoring leaf functional traits in situ, but it remains
unclear whether universal statistical models can be developed to predict traits from spectral …

Aim Predictions of plant traits over space and time are increasingly used to improve our
understanding of plant community responses to global environmental change. A necessary …