Tropical understory communities are highly diverse, and plants in these environments must optimize functional traits to ensure ecological and evolutionary success. Campany et al. survey the ecophysiology of two spore...
Leaf morphological, physiological and biochemical traits tend to vary in a coordinated manner as described by the Leaf Economics Spectrum (LES). Nevertheless, some aspects, such as how the leaf trait variation sources...
Liu et al. conducted a meta-analysis to test the hypothesis that shade-induced increases in specific-leaf-area (SLA) indicate an adaptive plant response to optimizing light capture. They conclude that species with...
Photosynthetic light-response curves describe how leaf photosynthesis changes with light intensity, but they are time-consuming to measure, differ between species and change depending on the growth environment of the...