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

成功和可持续地管理自然和人为修改的生态系统，源于我们对植物生态学基本原理的理解的进步。提高对植物获取和利用水和养分的了解，不仅应该改善目前的管理，而且应该在未来可能出现的情况下，如全球变暖、大气二氧化碳浓度升高或降雨制度改变，做出更有根据的管理决策。该项目产生的高影响力出版物将维持澳大利亚在环境植物生物学方面的领导地位。

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.