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Maximising trait evenness promotes the recovery of plant species richness in managed grasslands

Ecography, EarlyView.
Land‐use intensification threatens biodiversity, and restoring degraded ecosystems remains challenging due to the difficulty of identifying the rules governing community assembly and dynamics. Investigating the temporal dynamics of trait‐abundance distributions (TADs) along long‐term time series offers a promising approach to disentangle the influence ...
Nathan Rondeau, Yoann Le Bagousse‐Pinguet, Frédérique Louault, Raphael Martin, Pascal Carrère, Katja Klumpp, Pierre Liancourt, Nicolas Gross   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Faster growing and more functionally diverse: global change alters functional trait composition of mountain plant communities in the European Alps

Ecography, EarlyView.
Understanding how global change reshapes mountain plant communities is essential for predicting biodiversity and ecosystem function in a warming world. Using resurvey data from over 1400 non‐forest vegetation plots across the European Alps, we show that community‐weighted means of key functional traits capturing important dimensions of plant ecological
Sergey Rosbakh, Sabine B. Rumpf, Stefan Dullinger   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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
doaj   +1 more source

Plant Trait‐ and Soil‐Mediated Responses of Herbaceous Aboveground Biomass Across Community Types Along a Degradation Gradient in the Desert Steppe

Land Degradation &Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Grassland degradation profoundly alters the structure and function of desert steppe ecosystems. However, the responses of herbaceous aboveground biomass (Herb‐AGB) to degradation across different plant community types and the underlying mechanisms remain poorly understood.
Huaihai Wang, Zhaobin Song, Ya Hu, Ping Yue, Jingjuan Qiao, Xiaoxue Zhang, Zhengjiaoyi Wang, Fangwei Hao, Xiaoan Zuo   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Growth form, regeneration mode, and vegetation type explain leaf trait variability at the species and community levels in Mediterranean woody vegetation

Ecology and Evolution
Leaf traits are good indicators of ecosystem functioning and plant adaptations to environmental conditions. We examined whether leaf trait variability at species and community levels in Mediterranean woody vegetation is explained by growth form ...
İrem Tüfekcioğlu, Çağatay Tavşanoğlu   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Specific Leaf Area and Photosynthesis of Apple Trees Under a Dynamic Agrivoltaic System

AgriVoltaics Conference Proceedings
It has been assumed that crops cultivated in agrivoltaics (AV) systems can produce enough carbohydrates through the process of photosynthesis because they are expose to an excess of light. However, many studies have shown increases in specific leaf area
Perrine Juillion, Gerardo Lopez, Gilles Verambre, Michel Génard, Vincent Lesniak, Damien Fumey   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Accumulation of three different sizes of particulate matter on plant leaf surfaces: Effect on leaf traits [PDF]

Archives of Biological Sciences, 2015
Plants not only improve air quality by adsorbing particulate matter (PM) on leaf surfaces but can also be affected by their accumulation. In this study, a field investigation was performed in Wuhan, China, into the relationship between seven ...
Chen Xiaoping, Zhou Zhixiang, Teng Mingjun, Wang Pengcheng, Zhou Lin   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Asymmetric transferability of trait–environment relationships between native and exotic plant species in Singaporean forests differing in land‐use history

Oikos, EarlyView.
Functional traits allow ecologists to synthesise general rules of community assembly. In joint species distribution modelling, traits are increasingly used to explain species–environment relationships, with the intention of being able to generalise predictions to other species in other systems.
Hao Ran Lai, Kwek Yan Chong, Louise Neo, David A. Wardle, Peter A. Vesk   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Role of Plant Evolutionary History in Shaping the Variation in Specific Leaf Area Across China

Ecology and Evolution
Specific leaf area (SLA, leaf area per unit leaf dry mass) occupies a central position in both community assembly and ecosystem functioning. Although SLA has significant phylogenetic signals, how and to what extent the evolutionary history influences the
Minyue Si, Caiyi Zhang, Chunzhu Xiang, Mingxia Jiang, Linwei Guo, Junjiong Shao   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Early testing for improving growth under water shortage in Eucalyptus globulus Labill.

Forest Systems
Aim of study: We aimed at identifying differences in the response to water shortage between Eucalyptus globulus clones. Area of study: Field trials were established in SW Spain.
María J. Hernández, Sven Mutke, Fernando Montes, Pilar Pita   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source