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Successful recovery of native plants post-invasive removal in forest understories is driven by native community features. [PDF]

Ecol Appl
Abstract Temperate forest understories hold the majority of the plant diversity present in these ecosystems and play an essential role in the recruitment and establishment of native trees. However, the long‐term persistence of diverse and functional forest understories is threatened by the impacts of invasive plants.
Petri L, Ibáñez I.
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Seedling growth declines in warmed tropical forest soils

Biotropica, Volume 55, Issue 5, Page 897-910, September 2023., 2023
The response of tropical forest plants to a warming climate could have a large feedback on further climatic change. To address this, we tested the response of six tree species seedlings to 3 years of in‐situ experimental soil warming. Our study demonstrates that belowground warming causes species‐specific declines in the growth and photosynthesis of ...
Andrew T. Nottingham, Maria Montero‐Sanchez, Martijn Slot, Hubert A. Szczygieł, Esther Velasquez, Patrick Meir   +5 more
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Nutrient‐based species selection is a prevalent driver of community assembly and functional trait space in tropical forests

Journal of Ecology, Volume 111, Issue 6, Page 1218-1230, June 2023., 2023
Our results demonstrate that soil nutrient‐based species selection is a prevalent driver of community assembly in tropical forests, a process mediated by key functional traits within the leaf and wood economics spectrum. Functional space size and its filling increase with soil nutrient concentration, whereas niche vacancy decreases.
Guille Peguero, Fernando Coello, Jordi Sardans, Dolores Asensio, Oriol Grau, Joan Llusià, Romà Ogaya, Ifigenia Urbina, Leandro Van Langenhove, Lore T. Verryckt, Clément Stahl, Laëtitia Bréchet, Elodie A. Courtois, Jérôme Chave, Bruno Hérault, Ivan A. Janssens, Josep Peñuelas   +16 more
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Functional traits explain both seedling and adult plant spatial patterns in gypsum annual species

Functional Ecology, Volume 37, Issue 5, Page 1170-1180, May 2023., 2023
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Ecological processes such as seed dispersal or plant–plant interactions and environmental constraints such as climate or soil heterogeneity are known to influence establishment, and thus the spatial patterns of plant communities and populations.
Ana L. Peralta, Adrián Escudero, Marcelino de la Cruz, Ana M. Sánchez, Arantzazu L. Luzuriaga   +4 more
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Soil carbon storage is related to tree functional composition in naturally regenerating tropical forests

Functional Ecology, Volume 36, Issue 12, Page 3175-3187, December 2022., 2022
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Regenerating tropical forests are increasingly important for their role in the global carbon cycle. Carbon stocks in above‐ground biomass can recover to old‐growth forest levels within 60–100 years.
Abby Wallwork, Lindsay F. Banin, Daisy H. Dent, Ute Skiba, Emma Sayer   +4 more
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Ecological strategies of Al-accumulating and non-accumulating functional groups from the cerrado sensu stricto

Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências, 2015
The cerrado's flora comprises aluminum-(Al) accumulating and non-accumulating plants, which coexist on acidic and Al-rich soils with low fertility. Despite their existence, the ecological importance or biological strategies of these functional groups ...
Marcelo C. de Souza, Paula C.P. Bueno, Leonor P.C. Morellato, Gustavo Habermann   +3 more
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Agrupación funcional de especies vegetales para la restauración ecológica de ecosistemas de montaña, Bogotá, Colombia

Colombia Forestal, 2018
Los ecosistemas de montaña están sometidos a diversos factores de perturbación que requieren el desarrollo de procesos de restauración ecológica, orientados a su recuperación estructural y funcional.
Maribel Yesenia Vasquez Valderrama, Jairo Solorza-Bejarano   +1 more
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COMUNICACIÓN Morfometría foliar y clorofila de Piper reticulatum (Piperaceae) en luz y sombra en la Estación Biológica La Selva, Costa Rica

Cuadernos de investigación UNED, 2016
Las plantas tropicales presentan gran variedad en su morfología y fisiología para captar luz dentro del bosque. Piper reticulatum es un pequeño árbol con la capacidad vivir en condicionesde luz y sombra.
Sergio A. Villegas-Retana, María Chavarría-Soto   +1 more
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Leaf area of common bean genotypes during early pod filling as related to plant adaptation to limited phosphorus supply Área foliar de genótipos de feijoeiro no início de enchimento de vagens e sua relação com a adaptação vegetal ao suprimento limitado de fósforo

Revista Brasileira de Ciência do Solo, 2010
Low phosphorus supply markedly limits leaf growth and genotypes able to maintain adequate leaf area at low P could adapt better to limited-P conditions.
Roberto Santos Trindade, Adelson Paulo Araújo, Marcelo Grandi Teixeira   +2 more
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Functional traits predict changes in floral phenology under climate change in a highly diverse Mediterranean community

Functional Ecology, Volume 40, Issue 5, Page 1270-1285, May 2026.
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Plants are shifting their flowering phenology in response to climate change, but trends differ between species and communities. Functional traits can largely explain how different species respond to climate change by shifting their phenology, and can therefore help ...
Daniel Pareja‐Bonilla, Pedro Luis Ortiz, Leonor Patrícia Cerdeira Morellato, Montserrat Arista   +3 more
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