Abstract Climate change (“global warming”) is expected to exert serious negative effects on
biodiversity. Knowledge and understanding of non-anthropogenic climate changes in …

Leaf area (LA), mass per area (LMA), nitrogen per unit area (Narea) and the leaf‐internal to
ambient CO2 ratio (χ) are fundamental traits for plant functional ecology and vegetation …

Abstract Purpose of Review Defining the mechanisms behind and the leaf economic
consequences of the development of sclerophylly in woody plants will allow us to …

Leaf traits are essential for understanding many physiological and ecological processes.
Partial least squares regression (PLSR) models with leaf spectroscopy are widely applied …

Recent studies show coordinated relationships between plant leaf traits and their capacity to
predict ecosystem functions. However, how leaf traits will change within species and …

Global patterns of leaf nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) stoichiometry have been interpreted
as reflecting phenotypic plasticity in response to the environment, or as an overriding effect …

Leaf morphological traits vary systematically along climatic gradients. However, recent
studies in plant functional ecology have mainly analysed quantitative traits, while numerical …

Leaf functional traits (LFTs) of desert plants are responsive, adaptable and highly plastic to
their environment. However, the macroscale variation in LFTs and driving factors underlying …

Uncertainty persists within trait‐based ecology, partly because few studies assess multiple
axes of functional variation and their effect on plant performance. For 55 species from two …

Plant functional traits represent adaptive strategies to the environment, linked to biophysical
and biogeochemical processes and ecosystem functioning. Compilations of trait data …