The use of fossil fuels and fertilizers has increased the amount of biologically reactive
nitrogen in the atmosphere over the past century. As a consequence, forests in industrialized …

Significantly more carbon is stored in the world's soils—including peatlands, wetlands and
permafrost—than is present in the atmosphere. Disagreement exists, however, regarding the …

The leaf economics spectrum, and the global spectrum of plant forms and functions revealed
fundamental axes of variation in plant traits, which represent different ecological strategies …

It has been suggested that diverse forests utilize canopy space more efficiently than species‐
poor ones, as mixing species with complementary architectural and physiological traits …

The role of time in ecology has a long history of investigation, but ecologists have largely
restricted their attention to the influence of concurrent abiotic conditions on rates and …

This paper discusses the advantages and disadvantages of the different methods that
separate net ecosystem exchange (NEE) into its major components, gross ecosystem …

The measured net ecosystem exchange (NEE) of CO2 between the ecosystem and the
atmosphere reflects the balance between gross CO2 assimilation [gross primary production …

Understanding the trend of vegetation change and its reaction to climate variation is
important for revealing the mechanism of ecosystem behavior. However, current research …

Plants are finely tuned to the seasonality of their environment, and shifts in the timing of plant
activity (ie phenology) provide some of the most compelling evidence that species and …

Agricultural drainage of organic soils has resulted in vast soil subsidence and contributed to
increased atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrations. The Sacramento‐San Joaquin …