Recent studies have shown that accounting for intraspecific trait variation (ITV) may better
address major questions in community ecology. However, a general picture of the relative …

Owing to the conceptual complexity of functional diversity (FD), a multitude of different
methods are available for measuring it, with most being operational at only a small range of …

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

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 …

Understanding the processes maintaining species diversity is a central problem in ecology,
with implications for the conservation and management of ecosystems. Although biologists …

Climate change will likely reshuffle ecological communities, causing novel species
interactions that could profoundly influence how populations and communities respond to …

Trait differences among plants are expected to influence the outcome of competition;
competition should be strongest between similar species (or individuals) under limiting …

Plant traits can be used to understand a range of ecological processes, including
competition with invasive species. The extent to which native and invasive species are …

Assembly of grassland communities has long been scrutinized through the lens of functional
diversity. Studies generally point to an overwhelming influence of climate on observed …

Phenotypic plasticity, within and across generations (transgenerational plasticity), allows
organisms and their progeny to adapt to the environment without modification of the …