Continuous traits and units |
|
|
Plant height (m) |
H |
Competitiveness, robustness, potential strength,
fecundity, carbon storage, light acquisition |
Seed mass (mg) |
SM |
Dispersal, establishment, survival,
competitiveness |
Leaf area (mm2) |
LA |
Resource acquisition,
allometric factors and environmental stresses |
Specific leaf area (mm2 mg-1) |
SLA |
Relative Growth Rate (RGR) and environmental conditions |
Leaf dry matter content (mg g-1) |
LDMC |
Leaf
density, decomposition rates and plant defense. |
Leaf thickness (mm) |
LT |
Defense, carbon balance, resource acquisition
and use, longevity |
Physical strength of leaves (N mm-1) |
LS |
Defense,
mechanical damage, anatomical variation, longer leaf lifespans, carbon
investment. |
Leaf water potential at pre-dawn (MPa) |
Ψpre-dawn
|
Water status and hydraulic strategies |
Leaf water potential at noon (MPa) |
Ψnoon
|
Water
status and hydraulic strategies |
Δ Leaf Water potential between noon and pre-dawn |
|
Hydraulic
strategies |
Light-saturated photosynthetic rate (µmol m-2
s-1) |
Amax
|
Metabolic capacity and
leaf economic spectrum |
Leaf transpiration rate
(mol m-2 s-1)
|
E
|
Photosynthetic rates, physical leaf characteristics and hydraulic
strategies.
|
Intercellular CO2/Ambient CO2
|
Ci/Ca
|
Related to stomatal limitations
of gas exchange when it is compared with stomatal
conductance. |
Water use efficiency (µmol CO2 mmol
H2O-1) |
WUE |
Carbon balance, water use efficiency,
resource use and acquisition |
Leaf phosphorus content (mg g-1) |
LPC |
Leaf quality,
nutritional quality of the soil |
Leaf carbon content (mg g-1) |
LCC |
Leaf
construction, resource use |
Leaf nitrogen content (mg g-1) |
LNC |
Concentration
of RuBisCO, photosynthesis and fast-to-slow strategy, nutritional
quality of the soil |
Leaf C:N |
C:N |
Decomposition rate |
Cuticular conductance (mmol m-2 s-1) |
gmin
|
Drought tolerance and water
balance |
Categorical traits |
|
|
Spinescence |
|
Defense, correlated with drought and grazing
pressure |
Pubescence |
|
Regulation of leaf temperature and water
loss |
Dispersal syndrome |
|
Competitiveness, robustness, potential
establishment, migration capability |