Oak leaf morphology may be more strongly shaped by climate than by phylogeny

By Véronique Lesage On 19 March 2024 In All published articles, Data in repository, Open Access, Research paper

Key message

Despite been grown under the same climate, oak species are able to correlate with looser, but still identifiable, leaf morphological syndromes, composed by morphological traits with an ecological role in their respective macroclimates.

Keywords
Quercus; Macroclimate; Functional traits; Factor Analysis of Mixed Data; Leaf syndrome

Publication
Martín-Sánchez, R., Sancho-Knapik, D., Alonso-Forn, D. et al. Oak leaf morphology may be more strongly shaped by climate than by phylogeny. Annals of Forest Science 81, 14 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13595-024-01232-z

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Data and/or Code availability
The datasets generated and/or analyzed during the current study are available at https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10633924

Handling Editor
Erwin Dreyer

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