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@article{reich_relationships_1998,
	title = {Relationships of leaf dark respiration to leaf nitrogen, specific leaf area and leaf life-span: a test across biomes and functional groups.},
	volume = {114},
	url = {http://cwt33.ecology.uga.edu/publications/162.pdf},
	abstract = {Based on prior evidence of coordinated multiple leaf trait scaling, we hypothesized that variation among species in leaf dark respiration rate (Rd) should scale with variation in traits such as leaf nitrogen (N), leaf life-span, specific leaf area (SLA), and net photosynthetic capacity (Amax).  However, it is not known whether such scaling, if it exists, is similar among disparate biomes and plant functional types.  We tested this idea by examining the interspecific relationships between Rd measured at a standard temperature and leaf life-span, N, SLA and Amax for 69 species from four functional groups in six biomes traversing the Americas.  Area-based Rd was positively related to area-based leaf N within functional groups and for all species pooled, but not when comparing among species within any site.  At all sites, mass-based Rd (Rd-mass) decreased sharply with increasing leaf life-span and was positively related to SLA and mass-based Amax and leaf N (leaf Nmass).  These intra-biome relationships were similar in shape and slope among sites, where in each case we compared species belonging to different plant functional groups.  Significant Rd-mass},
	journal = {Oecologia},
	author = {Reich, P. B. and Walters, Michael B. and Ellsworth, D.S. and Vose, J.M. and Volin, John C. and Gresham, Charles. and Bowman, W. D.},
	year = {1998},
	keywords = {CWT, NWT}
}