Ian J Wright1, Peter B Reich, Mark Westoby

  • 1Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, New South Wales 2109, Australia. iwright@rna.bio.mq.edu.au

Nature
|April 23, 2004
PubMed
まとめ

この研究は,2,548種にわたる普遍的な葉の経済学スペクトルを明らかにし,植物が世界中で葉にどのように投資するかを詳細に説明しています. このスペクトルは,葉の特徴の変動と気候の相互作用を理解するために,植物機能型よりも優れた枠組みを提供します.

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