Leaf economics and slow-fast adaptation across the geographic range of Arabidopsis thaliana.

ABSTRACT: Life history strategies of most organisms are constrained by resource allocation patterns that follow a 'slow-fast continuum'. It opposes slow growing and long-lived organisms with late investment in reproduction to those that grow faster, have earlier and larger reproductive effort and a short longevity. In plants, the Leaf Economics Spectrum (LES) depicts a leaf-level trade-off between the rate of carbon assimilation and leaf lifespan, as stressed in functional ecology from interspecific comparative studies. However, it is still unclear how the LES is connected to the slow-fast syndrome. Interspecific comparisons also impede a deep exploration of the linkage between LES variation and adaptation to climate. Here, we measured growth, morpho-physiological and life-history traits, at both th

SUBMITTER: Sartori K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6656729 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature