Plant Phenotypic Plasticity in Response to Environmental Factors

Table 2

Phenotypic plasticity of morphological and physiological leaf traits for the mentioned shade-tolerant, shade-intolerant, and intermediate species and corresponding references.

	Species	Morphological plasticity	Physiological plasticity	References
Shade-tolerant	Fagus sylvatica	0.46	0.39	[37]
	Acer pseudoplatanus	0.31	0.34	[27]
	Ilex aquifolium	0.54	0.24	[119]
	Quercus ilex	0.33	0.5	[46]
	Acer saccharum	0.3	0.3	[108]
Intermediate	Acer rubrum	0.41	0.26	[108]
	Betula alleghaniensis	0.29	0.32	[108]
	Picea abies	0.13	0.22	[27]
	Quercus rubra	0.41	0.27	[108]
Shade-intolerant	Quercus robur	0.24	0.6	[37]
	Cistus incanus	0.18	0.38	[120]
	Abies procera	0.29	0.32	[108]