Decline of ecosystem services has triggered numerous studies aiming at developing more
sustainable agricultural management practices. Some agricultural practices may improve …

The pattern of a few abundant species and many rarer species is a defining characteristic of
communities worldwide. These abundant species are often referred to as dominant species …

Plant functional traits can predict community assembly and ecosystem functioning and are
thus widely used in global models of vegetation dynamics and land–climate feedbacks. Still …

Plant traits—the morphological, anatomical, physiological, biochemical and phenological
characteristics of plants—determine how plants respond to environmental factors, affect …

Earth is home to a remarkable diversity of plant forms and life histories, yet comparatively
few essential trait combinations have proved evolutionarily viable in today's terrestrial …

Functional ecology is the branch of ecology that focuses on various functions that species
play in the community or ecosystem in which they occur. This accessible guide offers the …

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

Plant functional traits are the features (morphological, physiological, phenological) that
represent ecological strategies and determine how plants respond to environmental factors …

Biological diversity, the variety of living organisms on Earth, is traditionally viewed as the
diversity of taxa, and species in particular. However, other facets of diversity also need to be …

The controls on aboveground community composition and diversity have been extensively
studied, but our understanding of the drivers of belowground microbial communities is …