U.S.-Australia Cooperative Research: Convergence and Divergence in Leaf Traits

美国-澳大利亚合作研究：叶子性状的趋同与分化

• 批准号: 9814047
• 负责人: Peter Reich
• 金额: $ 2.97万
• 依托单位: University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1999
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1999-05-01 至 2002-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9814047&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: U.S.; Australia; Cooperative; Research; Convergence

9814047REICH U.S.-Australia Cooperative Research: Convergence and Divergence in Leaf TraitsImproved understanding of convergence and divergence in plant traits is one of ecology's central questions. An enhanced capacity to predict variation in leaf traits would be valuable for global change modeling. The counterpart researchers will examine leaf traits along regional- and intercontinental-scale climate and soil gradients. They will also synthesize global-scale data from forty sites by evaluating variation in leaf traits in relation to moisture and fertility gradients, functional groupings, and phylogeny and will develop predictive equations for traits as a function of climate, soils, and phylogeny. The Australian counterpart is Prof. Mark Westoby, School of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney.

9814047REICH美澳合作研究：叶系的趋同和发散改进对植物性状趋同和发散的理解是生态学的中心问题之一。提高预测叶片性状变异的能力将对全球变化建模具有价值。相应的研究人员将研究区域和洲际尺度的气候和土壤梯度上的叶片特征。他们还将通过评估叶片性状与水分和肥力梯度、功能分类和系统发育的关系来合成来自40个地点的全球尺度数据，并将开发作为气候、土壤和系统发育函数的性状预测方程。澳大利亚的同行是悉尼麦格理大学生物科学学院的Mark Westoby教授。