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Isometric Scaling Relationship between Leaf Number and Size within Current-year Shoots of Woody Species across Contrasting Habitats
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
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| Author | Deng, Jian-Ming Wang, Gen-Xuan Cheng, Dongliang Yu, Ze-Long |
| Copyright Year | 2009 |
| Abstract | The scaling relationship be- tween the number and size of plant's components has been observed traditionally as reflective of a trade-off in resource allocation over ontogeny. The recent finding of a negative isometric leaf size/number trade-off across 24 deciduous woody species extends knowledge of such trade-offs to current-year shoots. Before generally accepted, this isometry has to be consistent across more datasets that represent diverse habitats. We tested this scaling relationship using 12 deciduous shrub species from the western Gobi Desert and 56 woody species from the northeastern temperate zone of China. Our results showed that leaf num- ber per stem mass of current-year shoots scaled approximately isometrically with individual leaf mass within and across habitats, which, combined with the independence of total leaf mass and in- dividual leaf mass, supports isometric scaling for shoot-scale leaf deployment. However, the inter- cepts of these relationships decreased significantly along the environmental gradients, suggesting that habitats could place a constraint on the total leaf number that can be supported by a given size shoot. Convergence towards higher leaf number and smaller leaf size for some desert species sug- gests important adaptive implications for photo- synthetic carbon gain and reproductive growth. |
| Starting Page | 659 |
| Ending Page | 667 |
| Page Count | 9 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Volume Number | 57 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://miiz.waw.pl/pliki/article/ar57_4_04.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
