Research Topics | Ian J WrightSummaryAffiliation: Macquarie University Country: Australia Publications
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Least-cost input mixtures of water and nitrogen for photosynthesisIan J Wright
Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, New South Wales 2109, Australia
Am Nat 161:98-111. 2003..This restraint of transpirational water use apparently counterbalances the multiple costs of deploying high-nitrogen leaves...- The worldwide leaf economics spectrumIan J Wright
Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, New South Wales 2109, Australia
Nature 428:821-7. 2004..Reliable quantification of the leaf economics spectrum and its interaction with climate will prove valuable for modelling nutrient fluxes and vegetation boundaries under changing land-use and climate... - Assessing the generality of global leaf trait relationshipsIan J Wright
Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, NSW 2109, Australia
New Phytol 166:485-96. 2005..Much, but not all, heterogeneity can be explained by variation in sample size alone. PNUE can also be considered as part of this trait spectrum, whereas leaf K and N : P ratios are only loosely related... - Irradiance, temperature and rainfall influence leaf dark respiration in woody plants: evidence from comparisons across 20 sitesIan J Wright
Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, New South Wales 2109, Australia
New Phytol 169:309-19. 2006..Our findings should prove useful for modelling plant nutrient and carbon budgets, and for modelling vegetation shifts with climate change... 
Relationships among ecologically important dimensions of plant trait variation in seven neotropical forestsIan J Wright
Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, New South Wales 2109, Australia
Ann Bot 99:1003-15. 2007..Here we investigated relationships among several traits, and thus the strategy dimensions they represented, across 2134 woody species from seven Neotropical forests...
Lifetime return on investment increases with leaf lifespan among 10 Australian woodland speciesDaniel S Falster
Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia
New Phytol 193:409-19. 2012..This suggests that time-discounting effects, that is, the compounding of income that arises from quick reinvestment of C revenue, are key in allowing short-LL species to succeed in the face of this economic handicap...- The leaf size-twig size spectrum and its relationship to other important spectra of variation among speciesMark Westoby
Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, NSW 2109, Australia
Oecologia 135:621-8. 2003..The leaf-size-twig-size spectrum has obvious consequences for the texture of canopies, but we are only just beginning to understand the costs and benefits of large versus small leaf and twig size... - Global patterns of leaf mechanical propertiesYusuke Onoda
Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia
Ecol Lett 14:301-12. 2011..Seldom appreciated in the past, toughness per density is a key factor in leaf mechanical resistance, which itself influences plant-animal interactions and ecosystem functions across the globe... - Land-plant ecology on the basis of functional traitsMark Westoby
Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia
Trends Ecol Evol 21:261-8. 2006..By extending the list and by developing better models for how traits influence species distributions and interactions, a strong foundation of basic ecology can be established, with many practical applications... - Anatomical basis of variation in mesophyll resistance in eastern Australian sclerophylls: news of a long and winding pathTiina Tosens
Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, New South Wales 2109, Australia
J Exp Bot 63:5105-19. 2012.... - Predicting leaf physiology from simple plant and climate attributes: a global GLOPNET analysisPeter B Reich
Department of Forest Resources, University of Minnesota, 1530 Cleveland Avenue North, St Paul, Minnesota 55108, USA
Ecol Appl 17:1982-8. 2007..This shows encouraging possibilities of progress in developing general predictive equations for macro-ecology, global scaling, and global modeling... - Scaling of respiration to nitrogen in leaves, stems and roots of higher land plantsPeter B Reich
Department of Forest Resources, University of Minnesota, 1530 Cleveland Avenue North, St Paul, MN 55108 1027, USA
Ecol Lett 11:793-801. 2008.... - Plant species traits are the predominant control on litter decomposition rates within biomes worldwideWilliam K Cornwell
Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences, Department of Systems Ecology, Institute of Ecological Science, Vrije Universiteit, De Boelelaan 1085, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Ecol Lett 11:1065-71. 2008..This connection between plant strategies and decomposability is crucial for both understanding vegetation-soil feedbacks, and for improving forecasts of the global carbon cycle... - "Diminishing returns" in the scaling of functional leaf traits across and within species groupsKarl J Niklas
Department of Plant Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14850, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 104:8891-6. 2007..We argue that this set reflects a fundamental property of all plants and helps to explain why annual growth fails to keep pace with increases in total body mass across species... - Specific leaf area and dry matter content estimate thickness in laminar leavesDenis Vile
Centre d Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive, CNRS, UMR 5175, 1919 Route de Mende, 34293 Montpellier Cedex 5, France
Ann Bot 96:1129-36. 2005..SLA and LDMC are two leaf traits that are both more easily measurable and often reported in the literature...