Diminishing returns among lamina fresh and dry mass, surface area, and petiole fresh mass among nine Lauraceae species

• Published in: American journal of botany Vol. 109; no. 3; pp. 377 - 392
• Main Authors: Li, Yirong, Shi, Peijian, Niinemets, Ülo, Song, Yu, Yu, Kexin, Schrader, Julian, Niklas, Karl J.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Botanical Society of America, Inc 01.03.2022
• Subjects: Bivariate analysis; diminishing returns; lamina dry mass; lamina fresh mass; Lauraceae; petiole fresh mass; petioles; Plant Leaves; Robustness (mathematics); Scaling; scaling relationship; Species; surface area; wind; diminishing returns; lamina fresh mass; petiole fresh mass; scaling relationship; lamina dry mass

Premise The phenomenon called “diminishing returns” refers to a scaling relationship between lamina mass (M) vs. lamina area (A) in many species, i.e., M ∝ Aα>1, where α is the scaling exponent exceeding unity. Prior studies have focused on the scaling relationships between lamina dry mass (DM) a...