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specific leaf area
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Definition
The ratio of leaf area to dry mass, often associated with dry conditions as it reduces surface area and water loss from the leaf
Related Terms (8)
SLALAILDMCLMAAmleaf hair densitytrichomesleaf mass per unit area
Publications (61)
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Predicting the contribution of single trait evolution to rescuing a plant population from demographic impacts of climate change
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Effects of water availability on expression of vegetative traits in Ipomopsis across space and time
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Forest composition and structural controls on canopy snow interception in a Colorado watershed
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Effects of warming, dominant species removal, and accelerated snowmelt on aboveground plant traits in the Colorado Rocky Mountains
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Genetic and spatial variation in vegetative and floral traits across a hybrid zone
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From legacy contamination to watershed systems science: a review of scientific insights and technologies developed through DOE-supported research in water and energy security
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High-Resolution Snow-Covered Area Mapping in Forested Mountain Ecosystems Using PlanetScope Imagery
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Phenotypic plasticity and selection on leaf traits in response to snowmelt timing and summer precipitation
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Snowmelt Timing Leads to Plasticity and Alters Natural Selection on Leaf Traits in <i> Ipomopsis </i>
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The Colorado East River Community Observatory Data Collection
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Climate and multiple dimensions of plant diversity regulate ecosystem carbon exchange along an elevational gradient
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Tests for Elevational Gradients in Herbivore Abundance and Plant Resistance in the Rocky Mountain Ecosystem
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The spatial variation of leaf traits in <i> Ipomopsis </i> according to soil moisture and snow depth
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TRY plant trait database - enhanced coverage and open access
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Impacts of snowmelt timing and precipitation on the expression of vegetative traits and floral traits in <i>Ipomopsis aggregata</i>
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Soil microbes that may accompany climate warming increase alpine plant production
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Context dependent biotic interactions control plant abundance across altitudinal environmental gradients
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Assessment of Spatiotemporal Variability of Evapotranspiration and Its Governing Factors in a Mountainous Watershed
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The Direct and Interactive Effects of Warming and Species Interaction on Plant Functional Traits
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The persistent maladaptation of <i>Pieris macdunnoughii</i>: Constraints on adaptation to an evolutionary trap
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Plant functional trait change across a warming tundra biome
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Plant dominance in a subalpine montane meadow: biotic vs. abiotic controls of subordinate diversity within and across sites
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Traditional plant functional groups explain variation in economic but not size related traits across the tundra biome
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Effects of Light Availability on Aspen Understory Species
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The impacts of early snowmelt and summer precipitation on the physiology and leaf morphology of <i>Ipomopsis aggregata</i>
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Disintegration of the leaf economic spectrum within and across Quaking aspen (<i>Populus tremuloides</i>) genotypes
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Aboveground resilience to species loss but belowground resistance to nitrogen addition in a montane plant community
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Does environmental heterogeneity drive functional trait variation? A test in montane and alpine meadows
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Integrating viability and fecundity selection to illuminate the adaptive nature of genetic clines
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Biotic and abiotic drivers of plant symbionts determine plant performance, the maintenance of diversity, and response to global change
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Differences in Evolutionary History and Ploidy Type Shape the Interactions of <i>Populus tremuloides</i> Michx. with Climate
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Correlation of leaf and community traits and various spectra in meadows along an elevation gradient
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How do Plant Traits Affect Thermoregulation?
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Comparing clines in floral and vegetative traits along an elevation gradient in an <i>Ipomopsis</i> hybrid zone
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Productivity of Montane Meadows in a Warming World: Evidence from an Elevation Gradient and a Warming Experiment
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Individual variation in plant traits drives species interactions, ecosystem functioning, and responses to global change.
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Plasticity in functional traits in the context of climate change: A case study of the subalpine forb Boechera stricta (Brassicaceae)
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Scaling from traits to ecosystems: Developing a general trait driver theory via integrating trait-based and metabolic scaling theories
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How an environment's moisture heterogeneity affects a community's traits
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Direct and Indirect Consequences of Climate Change on Net Ecosystem Exchange.
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Causes and consequences of dominant and subdominant plant species effects on ecosystem function: using above-and belowground traits in an alpine meadow system
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Elevational and temporal variation in Ipomopsis floral and vegetative traits.
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Which is a better predictor of plant traits: temperature or precipitation?
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Revisiting Darwin's hypothesis: Does greater intraspecific variability increase species' ecological breadth?
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Aboveground and belowground traits of dominant and sub-dominant species along an elevational gradient.
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Trichome density differences in Boechera stricta across an elevational gradient.
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Competitive hierarchy or niche packing? An examination of the effects of competition on community.
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Plant community light efficiency: measuring light response as a function of both photosynthesis irradiance.
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Assessing the causes and scales of the leaf economics spectrum using venation networks in <i>Populus tremuloides</i>
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The effect of plant trait variation on plant production
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Plasticity and changes in selection in response to changing precipitation regimes
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Trait variations of <i>Boechera stricta</i> along an elevation gradient
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Genetic and environmental variation in leaf traits and physiology of <i>Ipomopsis</i>
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Intraspecific variation of specific leaf area along an elevational gradient
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Intraspecific trait variation affects community distributions of alpine meadow plant communities
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Water-use efficiency may influence the distribution of <i>Ipomopsis aggregata</i>, <i>I. tenuituba</i>, and their natural hybrids along an environmental gradient
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Assessing Two Plant Leaf Functional Traits across a Temperature Gradient
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Physiological and Morphological Changes in Ipomopsis aggregata Along an Elevational Gradient
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The response of Heracleum sphondylium (Apiaceae) and its herbivores to
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Ecological Feedbacks to Global Warming: Extending Results from Plot to Landscape Scale
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