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Journal Article
Canopy leaf area index at its higher end
2019
Overview
There is evidence that mosses with miniature foliage elements have extremely large leaf area index (LAI) values, but it is unclear what canopy traits are responsible for these high LAI values in architecturally divergent mosses, and how the inherent trade-offs limiting maximum LAI in vascular plants can be overcome in mosses.
To determine the quantitative significance of different traits in determining LAI, we developed a method to dissect LAI into underlying functionally dependent constituent traits at leaf, shoot and canopy scales. The suites of structural traits were studied altogether for 43 moss canopies from 11 species with contrasting light and water requirements along gap-understory gradients to obtain as large a range of variation in moss architecture as possible and evaluate the differentiation in moss LAI in relation to species ecology.
Extensive variation in moss structural traits, 11- (shoot length) to 77-fold (shoot number per area,
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and LAI increased with site light availability, and LAI was greater in open and dry habitat species.
This study highlights a huge structural diversity among moss canopies, but indicates that canopies converge to a much narrower range of LAI due to trait trade-offs such that, counterintuitively, minute leaf size and densely leafed stems are not necessarily responsible for high LAI in mosses.
Publisher
Wiley,Wiley Subscription Services, Inc
Subject
/ Area
/ Bryophyta - anatomy & histology
/ Bryophyta - radiation effects
/ Canopies
/ Canopy
/ Foliage
/ habitats
/ Humidity
/ Leaves
/ Light
/ Mosses
/ Plant Leaves - anatomy & histology
/ Plant Leaves - radiation effects
/ Plant Shoots - anatomy & histology
/ Plant Shoots - radiation effects
/ Species
/ stems
