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Specific Leaf Area

Specific Leaf Area is a plant functional trait defined as the ratio of leaf area to leaf dry mass, serving as a key metric to characterize leaf thickness and density in relation to resource acquisition and growth strategies within plant functional ecology.

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2017–2026

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PLANT FUNCTIONAL MARKERS CAPTURE ECOSYSTEM PROPERTIES DURING SECONDARY SUCCESSION

Éric Garnier, Jacques Cortez, G. Billès et al. · Ecology · 2004 · 2.3K citations

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Global products of vegetation leaf area and fraction absorbed PAR from year one of MODIS data

Ranga B. Myneni, Samuel M. Hoffman, Yuri Knyazikhin et al. · Remote Sensing of Environment · 2002 · 2K citations

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Performance Comparisons of Co-Occurring Native and Alien Invasive Plants: Implications for Conservation and Restoration

Curtis C. Daehler · Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics · 2003 · 1.4K citations

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Photosynthetic acclimation of plants to growth irradiance: the relative importance of specific leaf area and nitrogen partitioning in maximizing carbon gain

John R. Evans, Hendrik Poorter · Plant Cell & Environment · 2001 · 1.2K citations · Full text

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Challenging Theophrastus: A common core list of plant traits for functional ecology

Evan Weiher, Adrie van der Werf, Ken Thompson et al. · Journal of Vegetation Science · 1999 · 1.1K citations

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Authors

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  1. PB
    Peter B. Reich

    University of Minnesota, United States

    40 publications · 9.3K citations

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  2. IJ
    Ian J. Wright

    Macquarie University, Australia

    30 publications · 7.3K citations

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  3. ÉG
    Éric Garnier

    Centre d'Écologie Fonctionnelle et Évolutive, France

    23 publications · 8.1K citations

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  4. JK
    Jens Kattge

    Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Germany

    23 publications · 3.3K citations

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  5. LP
    Lourens Poorter

    Wageningen University & Research, Netherlands

    22 publications · 4.5K citations

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Institutions

2.3K

  1. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    49 h-index

    234 publications

    26.2K citations

  2. University of Minnesota

    Minneapolis, United States

    48 h-index

    115 publications

    17.4K citations

  3. Macquarie University

    Sydney, Australia

    42 h-index

    145 publications

    25.1K citations

  4. Chinese Academy of Sciences

    Beijing, China

    42 h-index

    427 publications

    22.4K citations

  5. Wageningen University & Research

    Wageningen, The Netherlands

    40 h-index

    142 publications

    12.9K citations

  6. University of California, Davis

    Davis, United States

    34 h-index

    112 publications

    9.1K citations

  7. Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry

    Jena, Germany

    34 h-index

    69 publications

    7.7K citations

  8. Minnesota Department of Natural Resources

    Saint Paul, United States

    33 h-index

    65 publications

    12.4K citations

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  1. Functional Ecology

    109 publications · 13.7K citations

    66

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  2. New Phytologist

    124 publications · 14.5K citations

    64

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  3. Journal of Ecology

    89 publications · 13K citations

    57

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  4. Tree Physiology

    93 publications · 5.8K citations

    46

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  5. Annals of Botany

    101 publications · 6K citations

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