Lianas have more acquisitive traits than trees in a dry but not in a wet forest
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DOI: 10.1111/1365-2745.13644
Abstract: Lianas are increasing in relative abundance and biomass in many tropical forests. We tested the hypothesis that lianas conform to the fast and acquisitive end of the continuum of plant strategies, allowing lianas to acquire… read more here.
Keywords: wet forest; lianas trees; productive leaves; forest lianas ... See more keywords
Temperate Lianas Have More Acquisitive Strategies than Host Trees in Leaf and Stem Traits, but Not Root Traits
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DOI: 10.3390/plants11243543
Abstract: Increasingly, tropical studies based on aboveground traits have suggested that lianas have a more acquisitive strategy than trees, thereby possibly explaining the increase in lianas relative to trees in many tropical forests under global change.… read more here.
Keywords: economics; root traits; stem traits; leaf stem ... See more keywords