Assessing the causes and scales of the leaf economics spectrum using venation networks in Populus tremuloides
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Benjamin Blonder*, Cyrille Violle and Brian J. Enquist Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, 1041 E Lowell St., Tucson, AZ 85721, USA; Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, PO Box 519, Crested Butte, CO 81224, USA; Center for Macroecology, Evolution, and Climate, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 15, København Ø DK-2100, Denmark; Centre d’Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive, UMR 5175, CNRS, Montpellier, France; and The Santa Fe Institute, 1399 Hyde Park Road, Santa Fe, NM 87501, USA
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