Plant trait variation drives plant function, community composition and ecosystem processes.
However, our current understanding of trait variation disproportionately relies on …

While it is known that interactions between plants and soil fungi drive many essential
ecosystem functions, considerable uncertainty exists over the drivers of fungal community …

Biodiversity is defined by trait differences between organisms, and biologists have long
sought to predict associations among ecologically important traits. Why do some traits trade …

Fine‐root traits play key roles in ecosystem processes, but the drivers of fine‐root trait
diversity remain poorly understood. The plant economic spectrum (PES) hypothesis predicts …

Leaf reflectance spectra have been increasingly used to assess plant diversity. However, we
do not yet understand how spectra vary across the tree of life or how the evolution of leaf …

Leaf traits of global plants reveal the fundamental trade-offs in plant resource acquisition to
conservation strategies. However, which leaf traits are consistent, converged, or diverged …

Background and Aims It is frequently assumed that phenotypic plasticity can be very
advantageous for plants, because it may increase environmental tolerance (fitness …

Leaf functional traits (LFTs) of desert plants are responsive, adaptable and highly plastic to
their environment. However, the macroscale variation in LFTs and driving factors underlying …

Plant plastic responses are critical to the adaptation and survival of species under climate
change, but whether they are constrained by evolutionary history (phylogeny) is largely …

Trait‐based ecology has already revealed main independent axes of trait variation defining
trait spaces that summarize plant adaptive strategies, but often ignoring intraspecific trait …