By means of meta‐analyses we determined how 70 traits related to plant anatomy,
morphology, chemistry, physiology, growth and reproduction are affected by daily light …

Plants are exposed to heterogeneity in the environment where new stress factors (ie, climate
change, land use change, and invasiveness) are introduced, and where inter‐and …

Almost a century after Muriel Wheldale's landmark publication,“The Anthocyanin Pigments of
Plants”(Wheldale, 1916), much about anthocyanin function in plants remains to be …

The response of tree growth to a change in temperature may differ in predictable ways.
Trees with conservative growth strategies may have little ability to respond to a changing …

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 …

Summary 1 Global change and emerging concepts in ecology and evolution are leading to a
growing interest in phenotypic plasticity (PP), the environmentally contingent trait expression …

Stoichiometric relations in plants, with emphasis on C: N: P, are reviewed. Both theoretically
and empirically it is found for whole plants as well as for different tissues that nitrogen …

Leaf chemistry is important in predicting the functioning and dynamics of ecosystems. As two
key traits, leaf nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) concentrations set the limits for plant growth …

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

Plants show phenotypic plasticity in response to changing or extreme abiotic environments;
but over millions of years they also have co-evolved to respond to the presence of soil …