Phenotypic traits and their associated trade-offs have been shown to have globally consistent
effects on individual plant physiological functions 1 , 2 , 3 , but how these effects scale up …

Drought events are increasing globally, and reports of consequent forest mortality are
widespread. However, due to a lack of a quantitative global synthesis, it is still not clear whether …

Aim Biodiversity loss could reduce primary productivity and the carbon storage provided by
forests; however, the mechanisms underpinning the effects of biodiversity on multiple …

Most large‐scale multispecies studies of tree growth have been conducted in tropical and cool
temperate forests, whereas Mediterranean water‐limited ecosystems have received much …

The importance of biodiversity in supporting ecosystem functioning is generally well accepted.
However, most evidence comes from small‐scale studies, and scaling‐up patterns of …

Ongoing climate change poses significant threats to plant function and distribution. Increased
temperatures and altered precipitation regimes amplify drought frequency and intensity, …

Tree mortality is a key process underlying forest dynamics and community assembly.
Understanding how tree mortality is driven by simultaneous drivers is needed to evaluate potential …

Climate and forest structure are considered major drivers of forest demography and productivity.
However, recent evidence suggests that the relationships between climate and tree …

Aim The relative contribution of community functional diversity and composition to ecosystem
functioning is a critical question in ecology in order to enable better predictions of how …

Land use and land cover change is a major component of global change, which directly alters
habitat composition, biodiversity and ecosystem functioning. The regional analysis of land …