Global bioclimatic controls of leaf nitrogen: an implementation of Least-Cost Optimality Theory

Ning Dong1, Ian J Wright1, Iain COLIN C Prentice2,3, Owen K Atkin4, Keith J Bloomfield5,6, Sean M Gleason7, Han Wang8, Vincent Maire9 and Nicholas G Smith10,11, (1)Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia, (2)Imperial College London, AXA Chair of Biosphere and Climate Impacts, Department of Life Sciences, London, United Kingdom, (3)Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, (4)Australian National University, ARC Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology, Research School of Biology, Canberra, Australia, (5)Australian National University, Division of Plant Sciences, Research School of Biology, Canberra, Australia, (6)Imperial College London, Department of Life Sciences, Ascot, United Kingdom, (7)USDA‐ARS, Water Management and Systems Research Unit, Fort Collins, United States, (8)Tsinghua University, Department of Earth System Science, Beijing, China, (9)University of Quebec in Trois-Rivières, Montreal, QC, Canada, (10)Texas Tech University, Biological Sciences, Lubbock, TX, United States, (11)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States