Figure 2.

(A) Log-transformed leaf mass (LM) plotted against log-transformed root mass (RM) for a wide range of species and growth conditions. (B) Slope of a linear (black) or quadratic (red) relationship fitted through the data of (A). (C) Log-transformed leaf mass data plotted against log-transformed total plant mass (TM), and (D) Leaf Mass Fraction (LMF) plotted against log-transformed total plant mass for the same observations. Data are from Poorter et al. (2012), and comprise a large dataset (n = ∼5230) of leaves, stems, and roots of herbaceous and woody species.