Leaves are considered a significant site of carbon-water exchange and the energy-balance process. The characteristics of leaf response to the external environment, functional traits, coordination mechanisms, and trade-off strategies, as well as the structure and variation of leaves, have recently attracted huge interest. Further, leaf size could directly affect their capacity for light interception and carbon acquisition. Leaf area (LA) and related leaf traits such as specific leaf area (SLA), leaf area index (LAI), and normalized difference ve...
