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The normalization constant of the leaf area to dry mass scaling was significantly higher in May in woody plant life forms.
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Application of leaf “diminishing returns” scaling across woody plant life forms and growing seasons
Jun Sun; Zihan Zhu; Shujuan Cui; et al. Botany Letters 2026. doi:10.1080/23818107.2026.2612949
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- Observation Trees and small trees showed diminishing returns scaling (α < 1.0) between leaf area and dry mass in May.
- Observation Trees and small trees shifted to isometric scaling (α ≈ 1.0) between leaf area and dry mass in September.
- Observation Shrubs maintained an isometric leaf area to dry mass scaling relationship (α = 1.01) across the seasons.
- Observation Across the two seasons all life forms shared a common scaling slope of 0.95, significantly different from 1.0.