Fig. 1.
Changes in leaf functional traits at the two sites. Points and density curves represent data distribution of leaf functional traits in herbs at Huzhong (HH) and Linzhi (LH), in xylophyta at Huzhong (HX) and Linzhi (LX), and across the two plant functional types at both Huzhong (HZ) and Linzhi (LZ) sites. Leaf functional traits included leaf tissue density (LD, a), leaf thickness (LT, b), specific leaf area (SLA, c), leaf nitrogen concentration per unit mass (Nmass, d), leaf nitrogen concentration per unit area (Narea, e), light-saturated photosynthetic rate per unit mass (Amass, f), light-saturated photosynthetic rate per unit area (Aarea, g), photosynthetic nitrogen use efficiency (PNUE, h). Black points denote means with SD bars. Different capital and lowercase letters indicate significant differences among plant functional types and sites, respectively (p < 0.05)
