Claim · model-written summary
Mass-based traits were more tightly correlated than area-based traits in the photosynthesis scaling relationships.
- Taxon
- shrube0
- Outcome
- mass-based traitse4
- Direction
- more tightly correlatede4
- Comparator
- area-based traitse4
- Setting
- Inner Mongoliae0
Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageInteractorInteractor roleSecond interactorSecond interactor roleTreatmentValueQualifier
Verbatim
e0“Based on the sampling and measurement along a 1 100 km shrub-biome transect across the arid and semi-arid region in Inner Mongolia, northern China”
e4“The scaling relationships between leaf photosynthetic rate and LMA, N and P content were allometric, and mass-based traits were more tightly correlated than area-based traits”
Title
Relationships among shrub leaf traits in Inner Mongolia and comparison in different spatial scales
Liu Cha Beijing Linye Daxue xuebao 2012
Other claims from this paper (9)
- Association Leaf mass per area was negatively correlated with mass-based net photosynthetic rate, N and P content in Inner Mongolia shrubs.
- Association Leaf mass per area was positively related to area-based N and P content in Inner Mongolia shrubs.
- Association Mass- and area-based leaf net photosynthetic rate, N and P content were positively correlated with each other.
- Association LMA, N and P content showed an isometric scaling relationship with each other.
- Association Area-based traits were more tightly related with each other than mass-based traits.
- Association The scaling relationships between leaf photosynthetic rate and LMA, N and P content were allometric.
- Association Leaf trait scaling relationships became stronger with increasing spatial scales.
- Association Scaling exponents of leaf traits changed systematically with increasing spatial scales.
- Association The authors support a global general scaling relationship among key functional leaf traits.