Sustainable strategies for managing weeds are critical to meeting agriculture's potential to
feed the world's population while conserving the ecosystems and biodiversity on which we …

Background Investigating the causes and consequences of intraspecific trait variation (ITV)
in plants is not novel, as it has long been recognized that such variation shapes biotic and …

Increasing soil carbon and nitrogen storage can help mitigate climate change and sustain
soil fertility,. A large number of biodiversity-manipulation experiments collectively suggest …

Forests constitute important ecosystems in the global carbon cycle. However, how trees and
environmental conditions interact to determine the amount of organic carbon stored in forest …

Approximately 25 years ago, ecologists became increasingly interested in the question of
whether ongoing biodiversity loss matters for the functioning of ecosystems. As such, a new …

The tundra is warming more rapidly than any other biome on Earth, and the potential
ramifications are far-reaching because of global feedback effects between vegetation and …

Metacommunity ecology links smaller-scale processes that have been the provenance of
population and community ecology—such as birth-death processes, species interactions …

Abstract Theory predicts that intraspecific competition should be stronger than interspecific
competition for any pair of stably coexisting species, yet previous literature reviews found …

Traits are measurable features of organisms. Functional traits aspire to more. They quantify
an organism's ecology and, ultimately, predict ecosystem functions based on local …

One of ecology's grand challenges is developing general rules to explain and predict highly
complex systems. Understanding and predicting ecological processes from species' traits …