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Book cover Photosynthetic Adaptation

Part of the book series: Ecological Studies ((ECOLSTUD,volume 178))

Abstract

The capacity of terrestrial plant leaves for photosynthetic CO2 fixation per unit gram of leaf varies over 10-fold (Reich et al. 1997). The results of CO2 fixation, processing and subsequent accumulation of mass (Fig. 8.1) gives plants the most enormous variation in size of organisms on earth (Niklas and Enquist 2001). The variation in photosynthetic capacity and in leaf form among species of higher plants attests to strong adaptation to different environments, in combination with exaptation and ecological sorting, by selection for traits that enable plants to survive and thrive in even the earth’s extreme climates. Thus, diverse adaptations to permit photosynthetic carbon assimilation and utilization at the leaf and canopy level among different environments, as well as the synchronization of downstream metabolic processing of this carbon for growth and other functions, can be considered important drivers of biological diversity from a functional perspective.

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Ellsworth, D.S., Niinemets, Ü., Reich, P.B. (2004). Leaf to Landscape. In: Smith, W.K., Vogelmann, T.C., Critchley, C. (eds) Photosynthetic Adaptation. Ecological Studies, vol 178. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-27267-4_8

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