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2009 Third International Symposium on Plant Growth Modeling, Simulation, Visualization and Applications, 2009

2006 Second International Symposium on Plant Growth Modeling and Applications, 2006

Field Crops Research, 2001

A linear increase in nitrogen harvest index (NHI), especially when expressed on the basis of cumu... more A linear increase in nitrogen harvest index (NHI), especially when expressed on the basis of cumulative thermal units, has been observed to be a common feature during seed growth in field pea (Pisumsativum L.). The linear increase in NHI was observed even though the individual variables defining plant N uptake and partitioning within the plant changed during seed-fill and were

Physiologia Plantarum, 2008

Oecologia, 2009

Although of primary importance to explain plant community structure, general relationships betwee... more Although of primary importance to explain plant community structure, general relationships between plant traits, resource depletion and competitive outcomes remain to be quantified across species. Here, we used a comparative approach to test whether instantaneous measurements of plant traits can capture both the amount of resources depleted under plant cover over time (competitive effect) and the way competitors perceived this resource depletion (competitive response). We performed a large competition experiment in which phytometers from a single grass species were transplanted within 18 different monocultures grown in a common-garden experiment, with a time-integrative quantification of light and water depletion over the phytometers&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;#39; growing season. Resource-capturing traits were measured on both phytometers (competitive response traits) and monocultures (competitive effect traits). The total amounts of depleted light and water availabilities over the season strongly differed among monocultures; they were best estimated by instantaneous measurements of height and rooting depth, respectively, performed when either light or water became limiting. Specific leaf area and leaf water potential, two competitive response traits measured at the leaf level, were good predictors of changes in phytometer performance under competition, and reflected the amount of light and water, respectively, perceived by plants throughout their lifespan. Our results demonstrated the relevance of instantaneous measures of plant traits as indicators of resource depletion over time, validating the trait-based approach for competition ecology.