Leaf economics, and the acquisition and use of water and nitrogen for photosynthesis

对自然生态系统和人工改良生态系统的成功和可持续管理源于我们对植物生态学基本原理的理解的进步。对植物获取和利用水分和养分的更好的理解不仅应该导致在当今更好的管理，而且在未来可能发生的情况下，如全球变暖、大气二氧化碳浓度升高或降雨制度改变，管理决策也应该更有根据。该项目产生的高影响力出版物将保持澳大利亚在环境植物生物学领域的领先地位。

Successful and sustainable management of both natural and human-modified ecosystems flows from advances in our understanding of the fundamentals of plant ecology. Improved understanding of acquisition and use of water and nutrients by plants should lead not only to better management in the present day, but better-founded management decisions under possible future scenarios such as global warming, higher atmospheric CO2 concentrations or altered rainfall regimes. High-impact publications resulting from this project will sustain Australian leadership in environmental plant biology.