Functional Trait Trade-Offs for the Tropical Montane Rain Forest Species Responding to Light from Simulating Experiments

Table 3

Plasticity indexes for morphological parameters in seedlings of the three rain forest tree species under different light levels.

Indexes	Plasticity indexes
	Ec	Pl	Mean
Biomass allocation
LMR	0.49 ± 0.20	0.34 ± 0.03	0.42
SMR	0.14 ± 0.07	0.16 ± 0.06	0.15
RMR	0.30 ± 0.04	0.20 ± 0.03	0.25
Biomass allocation mean	0.31	0.23	0.27
Leaf morphology
SLA	0.47 ± 0.12	0.17 ± 0.06	0.32
LAR	0.73 ± 0.13	0.46 ± 0.04	0.60
Leaf morphological mean	0.60	0.32	0.46
Total	2.13	1.33