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carlbergstrom.com
Just in case there was any doubt, ChatGPT 5.0 still makes up completely random citations that don't exist and should not be used for literature search.
1. David Ackerly (UC Berkeley) While his most-cited work is on leaf size and SLA, he also wrote explicitly about plasticity in leaf traits, including shape, in the context of ecological strategies. Example: Ackerly (1997), “Allocation, leaf display, and growth in fluctuating light environments: A comparative study of deciduous and evergreen species” (Oecologia). This emphasizes how plasticity in leaf traits mediates adaptation to light.
August 16, 2025 at 6:57 AM
compoundeyes.bsky.social
I finally finished them...
🦋🐏ARIES ♈🪲
An anthropomorphic ram with insect traits and colors like a changing leaf in fall.
November 27, 2025 at 6:17 PM
journalofecology.bsky.social
🍂This new study is the first to investigate how various leaf biomechanical traits can affect leaf-litter decomposition trajectories, advancing our understanding of how litter decomposability is controlled by leaf functional traits 🧪🌏
Leaf biomechanical traits predict litter decomposability
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May 12, 2025 at 11:04 AM
journalofecology.bsky.social
Fire regimes in Mediterranean climates are shifting towards more frequent/severe events. Study shows strong links between fire, #plant traits & community response.🔥impacts traits like #seed mass, #leaf area, & wood density at the community level besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Functional responses of Mediterranean flora to fire: A community‐scale perspective
Fire influences plant traits differently at community versus species levels. Communities with low leaf nitrogen content. (LNC) and specific leaf area (SLA, not shown) are more fire-adapted, while lar...
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
December 21, 2024 at 1:37 PM
newphyt.bsky.social
#Viewpoint: Do stomatal traits modulate leaf microbiome assembly?

Busby et al.
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#LatestIssue #PlantScience
Fig. 1 Schematic diagram of stomatal and associated leaf traits hypothesized to influence leaf microbiome assembly.
March 6, 2026 at 2:45 AM
mirandakeeling.com
A small, curly brown leaf is given character traits by the blowing wind as it is scattered across the ground in the woods: enthusiasm, joie de vivre, small-scale risk taking. This is a fun-best-friend of a leaf.
March 10, 2026 at 12:55 PM
kalimiddleby.bsky.social
Can tropical rainforest trees keep their cool? Now out in @globalchangebio.bsky.social we explored whether intraspecific variation in leaf energy balance was a result of adaptation to local climate.
doi.org/10.1111/gcb....
Local Adaptation Drives Leaf Thermoregulation in Tropical Rainforest Trees
We tested whether tropical rainforest trees adjust their leaf traits and resulting leaf temperatures across their distributions within the Australian Wet Tropics. Using field measurements from across...
doi.org
September 4, 2025 at 10:24 PM
timcurran.bsky.social
Congrats, @azhar06.bsky.social on another PhD chapter being published!

Fuel architecture influences interspecific variation in shoot flammability, but not as much as leaf traits

@journalofecology.bsky.social @dylanschwilk.bsky.social

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besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Fuel architecture influences interspecific variation in shoot flammability, but not as much as leaf traits
This study addresses a key knowledge gap by demonstrating the influence of fuel architecture on shoot flammability and improves understanding of why species with certain architecture (e.g. highly bra...
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 27, 2024 at 10:27 AM
owenatkin.bsky.social
Super proud of Shinichi and team for examining if leaf carbohydrate concentrations correlate with structure, chemistry, and physiology traits. 114 sp, 19 sites, 5 biomes. Take home: most daily C gain is exported
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Leaf nonstructural carbohydrate residence time, not concentration, correlates with leaf functional traits following the leaf economic spectrum in woody plants
Nonstructural carbohydrate (NSC) concentrations might reflect the strategies described in the leaf economic spectrum (LES) due to their dependence on photosynthesis and respiration. We examined if N...
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
December 9, 2024 at 7:05 AM
forestplots.bsky.social
Measuring Amazon tree leaf traits, 40 years on.

From the same trees collected by Al Gentry in 1983, Riley Fortier and colleagues assess the impacts of climate change on individual-level traits.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Individual Trees Respond to 40 Years of Climate Change Through Leaf Functional Trait Acclimation
We measured leaf traits from historic and contemporary herbarium specimens collected from the same individual trees in the southern Peruvian Amazon and compared trait changes to local changes in clim...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
July 8, 2026 at 3:03 PM
hilaryrosed.bsky.social
Three years ago, I joined this fabulous group of researchers in western Norway for the sixth Plant Functional Traits Course. Now, we've published the dataset covering morphological traits, spectroscopy, carbon flux, and more:

doi.org/10.1038/s41597-025-05509-4

🧪 #OpenAccess #Botany #PlantTraits 🧵
A group of forty people arranged in chromatic order based on their colourful rain gear A diagram describing the PFTC6 dataset, including leaf traits, leaf assimilation temperature responses, hyperspectral readings, canopy leaf temperatures, airborne multi-spectral imagery, CO2 fluxes, and microclimate, linking in with existing datasets on plant community and biomass.
September 19, 2025 at 3:30 PM
owenatkin.bsky.social
Congrats to Wengqi Wu et al on: Linking leaf dark respiration to leaf traits and reflectance spectroscopy across diverse forest types. A step forward in expanding our ability to monitor complex metabolic traits using reflected light. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @newphyt.bsky.social
Linking leaf dark respiration to leaf traits and reflectance spectroscopy across diverse forest types
Leaf dark respiration (Rdark), an important yet rarely quantified component of carbon cycling in forest ecosystems, is often simulated from leaf traits such as the maximum carboxylation capacity (Vc.....
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 20, 2024 at 12:14 AM
timcurran.bsky.social
From traits to flames: leaf traits, plant strategies, and plant flammability across a moisture gradient in a frequently burned subtropical landscape

@owenschmowen.bsky.social et al.

@oikosjournal.bsky.social

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From traits to flames: leaf traits, plant strategies, and plant flammability across a moisture gradient in a frequently burned subtropical landscape
The distribution of plant functional traits across environmental gradients can reflect species' adaptations to local abiotic conditions. Widely measured leaf traits such as leaf area (LA), specific l...
nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
September 29, 2025 at 11:12 AM
ucdavisplants.bsky.social
🌱 From New Phytologist: Tiny leaf pores may play a larger role than expected in shaping plant microbiomes. Stomatal traits could influence which microbes enter, persist, and affect plant health. (Gail Taylor)

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#PlantScience #PlantBiology
Schematic diagram of stomatal and associated leaf traits hypothesized to influence leaf microbiome assembly. Colonization of the leaf surface begins with the arrival of airborne microbial propagules (1) from a local species pool. Upon arrival, bacteria and fungi establish as epiphytes (2), some forming biofilms or appressoria on the leaf surface. Several leaf traits influence the abundance and distribution of resources available to these microbes, including the presence of trichomes, the hydrophobicity of the leaf surface, and the trough and furrows of cell edges (3), as well as the release of plant leaf exudates (4), which comprise a variety of substances ranging from simple sugars to volatile organic compounds. The first physical barrier encountered by microorganisms is the cuticle (5), which overlays the outer epidermal cell layer (6). Embedded within this barrier are stomata, each formed by a pair of specialized guard cells (7), which regulate their turgor pressure by modulating solute concentrations within their vacuoles (8) in response to environmental stimuli. In addition to regulating gas exchange, stomatal pores also serve as potential entry points for microbial colonization of the leaf interior, ultimately contributing to the assembly of the leaf endophyte community (9). This figure was created in BioRender.
June 23, 2026 at 3:57 PM
benitoexplains.bsky.social
Leaf? 🍃 Or katydid? 🦗
Our new
@plosbiology.org paper sheds light on how these incredible mimics evolved their disguises, and what this reveals about how complex adaptations arise. We find that coordinated evolution between traits might be the answer… plos.io/4oUE741 1/n
Functional and evolutionary synergy of trait components can explain the existence of leaf masquerade in katydids
The evolution of complex adaptations often involves synergistic changes in multiple traits that lack standalone function. This study shows that leaf masquerade in katydids evolved through concurrent m...
plos.io
November 4, 2025 at 2:02 PM
captainlibatron.bsky.social
Labour use gambling as a culture war wedge issue to fig leaf their ties to the gambling lobby. It's one of their very, very many Tory traits
April 18, 2026 at 7:16 AM
baydews.com
did you know? a group of dryads is called a grove 🌳
[ #ttrpg #characterdesign #art #oc #ocsky ]
illustration of five dryads lined up next to each other, each with different traits and looks with some overlap due to their shared heritage which consists in hues found in nature on their skin and eyes that have glowing pupils, plant-like outfits and nature all over their bodies in the form of roots, vines, grass and leaves. starting from the left, one has bushy pink blossoms for hair and vines with white flowers for decoration along with a standard leaf-like dress, the next has short green hair with one long braided strand, the next is tall and well built, orange in hue, reminiscent of a tree in autumn, the third has pale braided vines for hair and the last one has long green grass-like hair and bright yellow freckles, carrying a cane to support their mobility due to a lasting injury on their ankle signified by a scar
April 3, 2025 at 9:57 PM
jxbotany.bsky.social
🌡️🌿 RESEARCH 🌡️🌿

This study reveals the genetic control of leaf temperature by identifying QTLs and linking its variability to the large genetic variation of morpho-physiological traits involved in the leaf energy balance - Chir et al.

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
#PlantScience 🧪
Fig. 1 (shortened, full legend in paper): Influence of leaf morpho-physiological traits and climatic conditions on leaf temperature through the components of the leaf energy balance: latent heat flux (L), sensible heat flux (H), and net radiative balance (Rn). (A) Traits in red were measured on the grapevine panel with Tleaf, leaf temperature (K); gs, stomatal conductance (mol m−2 s−1); area, leaf flattened area (cm2); unfolding: folded leaf area/unfolded leaf area ratio (dimensionless); inclination, leaf downward angle with respect to horizontal (°); reflectance, reflectance of the leaf (dimensionless); transmittance, transmittance of the leaf (dimensionless). Climatic variables influencing leaf energy balance are VPDair, vapour pressure deficit in the air (Pa), a function of air vapour pressure (VPair) and air temperature (Tair); wind, wind speed (m s−1);
November 30, 2025 at 10:30 AM
journalofecology.bsky.social
🔥Fuel architectural traits such as branching pattern influence shoot flammability, but leaf traits such as LDMC & leaf thickness play a stronger role in explaining interspecific flammability variation: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Fuel architecture influences interspecific variation in shoot flammability, but not as much as leaf traits
This study addresses a key knowledge gap by demonstrating the influence of fuel architecture on shoot flammability and improves understanding of why species with certain architecture (e.g. highly bra...
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 29, 2024 at 2:41 PM
ucdavisplants.bsky.social
🌱 From Earth System Science Data: A new global database links leaf spectroscopy with photosynthetic traits across hundreds of species, enabling better models for plant function and climate research. (Troy Magney)
▶️ essd.copernicus.org/articles/18/...
#PlantScience #PlantBiology
The Global Spectra-Trait Initiative: A database of paired leaf spectroscopy and functional traits associated with leaf photosynthetic capacity
Abstract. Accurate assessment of leaf functional traits is crucial for a diverse range of applications from crop phenotyping to parameterizing global climate models. Leaf reflectance spectroscopy offe...
essd.copernicus.org
January 12, 2026 at 5:36 PM
wizentrop.bsky.social
Leaf chafers like this Platycoelia has many "friend-shaped" attributes: Round. Smooth. Shiny. Big eyes. Green.
This photo isn't the best way to show these traits, but it shows the one thing about it that isn't friendly - its sharp curved claws, which are used for climbing branches just like a sloth!
July 21, 2025 at 4:50 PM
milanchytry.bsky.social
In our new article with Rui-Ling Liu and Wen-Yong Guo in J. Ecol., we quantified how plant strategy scores derived from leaf traits (Pierce method) correlate with other plant traits and plant environmental preferences.
🔗 Open-access article: doi.org/10.1111/1365...
‪@journalofecology.bsky.social‬
August 29, 2025 at 7:43 PM
lawrensack.bsky.social
The determination of leaf size on the basis of developmental traits - Zeqing Ma, Thomas N. Buckley, Lawren Sack - New Phytologist @tombuckleylab.bsky.social

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February 25, 2025 at 6:38 AM
lucascernusak.bsky.social
Congrats @kalimiddleby.bsky.social on this exciting paper showing local adaptation to warm temperatures in some tropical trees - and to coauthors @drrebeccajordan.bsky.social @martinbreed.bsky.social @awcheesman.bsky.social @mrossettorecer.bsky.social @dcrayn.bsky.social

dx.doi.org/10.1111/gcb....
Local Adaptation Drives Leaf Thermoregulation in Tropical Rainforest Trees
We tested whether tropical rainforest trees adjust their leaf traits and resulting leaf temperatures across their distributions within the Australian Wet Tropics. Using field measurements from across...
dx.doi.org
September 4, 2025 at 9:50 PM
jamminsamart.bsky.social
Surprise Me! Simple Shading Commission for Sekikumo !

🏷: #art | #VGenComm | #artistsupport
Illustration of commissioner's character, Frond, a woman with plant-like traits. Her skin is freckled and has markings similar to the veins of a leaf on her torso, forearms, and thighs; even her attire consists of flowers, leaves, and vines. She wears a soft smile, looking off in the distance, sunlight coming in from the leaves behind and above her.
September 10, 2026 at 6:01 PM