New insights into the leaf economic spectrum could benefit terrestrial models

2025/01/31 by Anna Harper, Simon Jones · 1 voice
Environmental Science · Economics, Econometrics and Finance · #Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies #Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics #Economic and Environmental Valuation

paper · pdf · doi:10.1111/nph.20419

Abstract

This article is a Commentary on Asao et al . (2025), 246 : 1505–1519 .

Citations

• Functional diversity improves tropical forest resilience: Insights from a long‐term virtual experiment

Discussions

• How do leaf carbohydrate dynamics relate to the leaf economic spectrum and what does this mean for modelling the terrestrial biosphere? Find out by reading Asao et al 2024 and the recently published [bsky, 10 points, 0 comments]

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