Plant traits related to leaf decomposition processes in arid ecosystems of northern Patagonia |
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Authors: | Marlene I Bar Lamas Analía L Carrera and Mónica B Bertiller |
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Institution: | 1. Instituto Patagónico para el Estudio de los Ecosistemas Continentales (IPEEC)- CONICET CCT CENPAT, Boulevard Brown 2915, 9120 Puerto Madryn, Chubut, Argentina;2. Facultad de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia San Juan Bosco, Boulevard Brown 3700, 9120 Puerto Madryn, Chubut, Argentina;
*Correspondence address. Tel: +54-280-4883184; Fax: +54-280-4883543; E-mail: barlamas@cenpat-conicet.gob.ar; |
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Abstract: | Aims
Plants play an important role in ecosystem processes. Functional meaning of trait variation in wide environmental gradients is well known but is scarcely known across narrow gradients. We analyze the variation of morphological, physical and chemical traits of dominant plant species and the potential rates of dry mass loss and N release/immobilization during senesced leaf decomposition of these species across a narrow aridity gradient, and to identify indicative traits useful to set species functional groups sharing decomposition patterns. |
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Keywords: | mass loss morpho-physical and chemical plant traits N release/immobilization rate plant growth forms |
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