Description
To compare nutrient content and photosynthetic nutrient use efficiency between carnivorous plants and non-carnivorous plants, I assembled a comprehensive dataset from the literature.
For non-carnivorous plants, I used the Glopnet database of nutrient content and photosynthetic rates. The original dataset was published by Wright et al. (2004) in 2004 in Nature (I. J. Wright et al. [2004] The worldwide leaf economics spectrum. Nature 428, 821-827), and is available as a supplementary file on Nature's web-site. This dataset includes data on leaf N, leaf P, and maximum photosynthetic rate, but does not include data on leaf K. The Glopnet data on leaf K were published by Wright et al. in 2005 in New Phytologist (I. J. Wright et al. [2005] Assessing the generality of global leaf trait relationships. New Phytologist 166, 485-496).
Please contact Ian Wright directly for permission to use the Glopnet data and to obtain the data on K described by Wright et al. (2005).
I also found additional literature data for leaf N, P, and K concentrations that had not been included in the Glopnet dataset. These additional data include leaf nutrient concentrations for a variety of carnivorous plants as well as for a number of non-carnivorous plants, and can be retrieved by clicking on these hyper-links:
These data were assembled with support from research grant 02-35128 from the U.S. National Science Foundation.
If you use these data in any publication or presentation, please let me know. Please respect the effort and intellectual contributions of the original authors who collected these data and my efforts to track them down and collate them. Cite the original sources and this compilation in any publications or presentations resulting from the use of these data.
Thank you.
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