Plants are critical mediators of terrestrial mass and energy fluxes, and their structural and
functional traits have profound impacts on local and global climate, biogeochemistry …

Dominants are key species that shape ecosystem functioning. Plant dominance is typically
assessed on aboveground features. However, belowground, individual species may not …

Plant traits can provide unique insights into plant performance at the community scale.
Functional composition, defined by both functional diversity and community‐weighted trait …

Extreme drought decreases aboveground net primary production (ANPP) in most
grasslands, but the magnitude of ANPP reductions varies especially in C3‐dominated …

Global change is altering patterns of community assembly, with net outcomes dependent on
species' responses to the abiotic environment, both directly and mediated through biotic …

The grassland biome supports an enormous diversity of life and includes ecosystems used
extensively by humans. Although graminoids lend grasslands their characteristic …

Global change is impacting plant community composition, but the mechanisms underlying
these changes are unclear. Using a dataset of 58 global change experiments, we tested the …

A longstanding research divide exists in plant ecology: either focusing on plant clonality,
with no ambition to address nonclonal plants, or focusing on all plants, ignoring that many …

Biomass and its allocation are crucial to understand carbon cycling. Climate change and
human disturbance potentially alter soil pH, but it remains unclear how biomass production …

The host‐associated microbiome highly determines plant health. Available organic
resources, such as food for microbes, are important in shaping microbial community …