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Traits controlling shade tolerance in tropical montane trees

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Tropical canopies are complex, with multiple canopy layers and pronounced gap dynamics contributing to their high species diversity and productivity. An important reason for this complexity is the large variation in shade tolerance among di erent tree species. At present, we lack a clear understanding of which plant traits control this variation, e.g., regarding the relative contributions of whole-plant versus leaf traits or structural versus physiological traits. We investigated a broad range of traits in six tropical montane rainforest tree species with di erent degrees of shade tolerance, grown under three di erent radiation regimes (under the open sky or beneath sparse or dense canopies). The two distinct shade-tolerant species had higher fractional biomass in leaves and branches while shade-intolerant species invested more into stems, and these di erences were greater under low radiation. Leaf respiration and photosynthetic light compensation point did not vary with species shade tolerance, regardless of radiation regime. Leaf temperatures in open plots were markedly higher in shade-tolerant species due to their low transpiration rates and large leaf sizes. Our results suggest that interspeci c variation in shade tolerance of tropical montane trees is controlled by species di erences in whole-plant biomass allocation strategy rather than by di erence in physiological leaf traits determining leaf carbon balance at low radiation.
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hal-03043585 , version 1 (07-12-2020)

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Elisée Bahati Ntawuhiganayo, Félicien K Uwizeye, Etienne Zibera, Mirindi E Dusenge, Camille Ziegler, et al.. Traits controlling shade tolerance in tropical montane trees. Tree Physiology, 2020, 40 (2), pp.183-197. ⟨10.1093/treephys/tpz119⟩. ⟨hal-03043585⟩
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