Plant traits – the morphological, anatomical, physiological, biochemical and phenological
characteristics of plants and their organs – determine how primary producers respond to …

In many European agricultural landscapes, species richness is declining considerably. Studies
performed at a very large spatial scale are helpful in understanding the reasons for this …

A species' ecological niche depends on the species' adaptations to its present habitat, but
also on the legacy from its ancestors. Most authors argue that such a phylogenetic niche …

ATTEMPTS to understand how atmospheric nitrogen deposition affects forest ecosystems 1'2
have been hampered by the lack of a direct method to trace the fate of the deposited …

Biodiversity experiments have shown that species loss reduces ecosystem functioning in
grassland. To test whether this result can be extrapolated to forests, the main contributors to …

Despite evidence of pollinator declines from many regions across the globe, the threat this
poses to plant populations is not clear because plants can often produce seeds without …

Despite some progress, a predictive framework for predicting invasiveness remains illusive,
except for the fact that being invasive elsewhere, having a broad native range, and …

Theory predicts that the processes generating biodiversity after disturbance will change during
succession. Comparisons of phylogenetic and functional (alpha and beta) diversity with …

Biodiversity–ecosystem functioning ( BEF ) experiments address ecosystem‐level consequences
of species loss by comparing communities of high species richness with communities …

Growing evidence shows that epigenetic mechanisms contribute to complex traits, with
implications across many fields of biology. In plant ecology, recent studies have attempted to …