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Global Ecology and Conservation, 2023 Urbanization has a profound impact on the ecological processes and plant diversity of remnant forests. To understand the relationship between urbanization and woody plant communities in remnant forests, we conducted a study in Guiyang, China, where we ...
Yanjun Zheng, Jingyi Yang
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Lichen specific thallus mass and secondary compounds change across a retrogressive fire-driven chronosequence [PDF]
, 2012 In the long-term absence of major disturbances ecosystems enter a state of retrogression, which involves declining soil fertility and consequently a reduction in decomposition rates.
Asplund, Johan +2 more
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Mechanisms driving plant functional trait variation in a tropical forest
Ecology and Evolution, 2021 Plant functional trait variation in tropical forests results from taxonomic differences in phylogeny and associated genetic differences, as well as, phenotypic plastic responses to the environment.
Florian Hofhansl +4 more
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Plants, 2023 Nitrogen deposition and biodiversity alter plant flowering phenology through abiotic factors and functional traits. However, few studies have considered their combined effects on flowering phenology.
Yue Ma +4 more
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A plant economics spectrum in Mediterranean forests along environmental gradients: Is there coordination among leaf, stem and root traits? [PDF]
, 2015 12 páginas..- 4 figuras.-- 70 referencias.--Supporting Information: Additional Supporting Information may be found in the online version of this article: Appendix S1. Species list.--Appendix S2. Functional traits list.--Appendix S3. Phylogenetic tree.--
Antem, N. P. +6 more
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Plant trait effects on soil organisms and functions [PDF]
Pedobiologia, 2017 Global change alters the composition and functioning of ecosystems by creating novel environmental conditions and thereby selecting for specific traits of organisms. Thus, trait-based approaches are promising tools to more mechanistically understand compositional and functional shifts in ecological communities as well as the dependency of response and ...
Eisenhauer, Nico +1 more
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Local bird traits match fruit traits of two alien plants in urban fruit-frugivore interactions
Ecología Austral, 2023 Bird-mediated seed dispersal enhances invasions of many alien plant species. Typically, this mutualism is composed of a generalist assemblage of frugivorous birds in which morphological trait matching between bird and plant species is often thought to ...
Facundo X. Palacio, Diego Montalti
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Functional traits and phenotypic plasticity modulate species coexistence across contrasting climatic conditions [PDF]
, 2019 Functional traits are expected to modulate plant competitive dynamics. However, how traits and their plasticity in response to contrasting environments connect with the mechanisms determining species coexistence remains poorly understood.
AB Nicotra +49 more
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Plant Functional Traits as Determinants of Population Stability [PDF]
The Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America, 2014 Understanding the processes regulating population temporal stability is important to infer species coexistence and ecosystem stability patterns. It has been hypothesized that population temporal stability could be driven by functional trade‐offs in resource acquisition and growth rate strategies.
Maria Májeková +3 more
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Plant chemical traits define functional and phylogenetic axes of plant biodiversity
Ecology Letters, 2023 Abstract To determine which types of plant traits might better explain ecosystem functioning and plant evolutionary histories, we compiled 42 traits for each of 15 perennial species in a biodiversity experiment. We used every possible combination of three traits to cluster species.
George N. Furey, David Tilman
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