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Specific Leaf Area (SLA)
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Description
Comprehensive measurement of vegetative traits including specific leaf area, trichome density, water use efficiency, and percent water content from field-collected leaves using scanning, drying, weighing, and photosynthesis measurements.
Typical Equipment
- coin envelopes
- cooler
- scanner
- balance
- ImageJ software
- drying oven
- LI-COR 6400 XT Portable Photosynthesis System
- razor blade
Output Measurements
- specific leaf area
- trichome density
- water use efficiency
- percent leaf water content
- photosynthetic rate
- stomatal conductance
Papers Using This Protocol (27)
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Herbivory and water availability interact to shape the adaptive landscape in the perennial forb, Boechera stricta
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Effects of warming, dominant species removal, and accelerated snowmelt on aboveground plant traits in the Colorado Rocky Mountains
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Snowmelt Timing Leads to Plasticity and Alters Natural Selection on Leaf Traits in <i> Ipomopsis </i>
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Tests for Elevational Gradients in Herbivore Abundance and Plant Resistance in the Rocky Mountain Ecosystem
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Context dependent biotic interactions control plant abundance across altitudinal environmental gradients
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Does road dust affect growth rates in <i>Ipomopsis aggregata</i>?
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Soil microbes that may accompany climate warming increase alpine plant production
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The Relationship between Soil Properties and Variation in the Morphology and Phenology of non-native mustard plant <i>Thlaspi arvense</i> in Subalpine Meadows
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Plant dominance in a subalpine montane meadow: biotic vs. abiotic controls of subordinate diversity within and across sites
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Intraspecific variation in traits reduces ability of trait-based models to predict community structure
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Does environmental heterogeneity drive functional trait variation? A test in montane and alpine meadows
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Aboveground resilience to species loss but belowground resistance to nitrogen addition in a montane plant community
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Comparing clines in floral and vegetative traits along an elevation gradient in an <i>Ipomopsis</i> hybrid zone
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How do Plant Traits Affect Thermoregulation?
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Causes and consequences of dominant and subdominant plant species effects on ecosystem function: using above-and belowground traits in an alpine meadow system
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Elevational and temporal variation in Ipomopsis floral and vegetative traits.
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How an environment's moisture heterogeneity affects a community's traits
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Plant community light efficiency: measuring light response as a function of both photosynthesis irradiance.
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Aboveground and belowground traits of dominant and sub-dominant species along an elevational gradient.
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Plasticity and changes in selection in response to changing precipitation regimes
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Trait variations of <i>Boechera stricta</i> along an elevation gradient
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Assessing the causes and scales of the leaf economics spectrum using venation networks in <i>Populus tremuloides</i>
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How do the effects of herbivory and light gradients impact the overall plant fitness within different environments?
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Plant size influences mycorrhizal colonization of <i>Polemonium foliosissimum</i>
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Intraspecific trait variation affects community distributions of alpine meadow plant communities
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Testing the predictions of the Maximum Information Entropy Theory for abundance and energy distributions on the Gothic earthflow
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