One of ecology's grand challenges is developing general rules to explain and predict highly
complex systems. Understanding and predicting ecological processes from species' traits …

Future increases in drought severity and frequency are predicted to have substantial impacts
on plant function and survival. However, there is considerable uncertainty concerning what …

The effects of plants on the biosphere, atmosphere and geosphere are key determinants of
terrestrial ecosystem functioning. However, despite substantial progress made regarding …

Species are the unit of analysis in many global change and conservation biology studies;
however, species are not uniform entities but are composed of different, sometimes locally …

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 …

Background Plastic responses of plants to the environment are ubiquitous. Phenotypic
plasticity occurs in many forms and at many biological scales, and its adaptive value …

Intraspecific variation plays a critical role in extant and future forest responses to climate
change. Forest tree species with wide climatic niches rely on the intraspecific variation …

Deciphering the mechanisms that link biodiversity with ecosystem functions is critical to
understanding the consequences of changes in biodiversity. The hypothesis that …

Plant biology is experiencing a renewed interest in the mechanistic underpinnings and
evolution of phenotypic plasticity that calls for a re‐evaluation of how we analyse phenotypic …

Plants are exposed to heterogeneity in the environment where new stress factors (ie, climate
change, land use change, and invasiveness) are introduced, and where inter‐and …