Plant resource allocation patterns often reveal tradeoffs that favor growth (G) over defense
(D), or vice versa. Ecologists most often explain G–D tradeoffs through principles of …

Island floras are diverse with exceptionally high rates of endemicity, and they are also
severely threatened. Invasive plants are widespread on islands, but whether islands are …

Two recent publications 1, 2 have explored the importance of roots for understanding plant
form and function, but reached opposite conclusions on the basis of largely overlapping …

Aim To determine the relationships between the functional trait composition of forest
communities and environmental gradients across scales and biomes and the role of species …

With increasing elevation, trees in tropical montane forests have to invest larger fractions of
their resources into their fine roots in order to compensate for increasingly unfavorable soil …

Abstract Background and Aims Plant performance is enhanced by balancing above-and
below-ground resource uptake through the intraspecific adjustment of leaf and root traits. It is …

Understanding how biotic interactions and environmental filtering mediated by soil
properties shape plant community assembly is a major challenge in ecology, especially …

Fine roots balance multiple essential plant functions that ultimately fuel plant productivity.
The coordination of root functional traits is multidimensional, meaning that some traits are …

Climate extremes and biotic interactions at the neighbourhood scale affect tropical forest
dynamics with long‐term consequences for biodiversity, global carbon cycling and climate …

Non‐structural carbohydrates (NSC) are considered as indicators of the balance between
tree carbon sources and sinks and reflect functional strategies throughout different biomes …