Climate change is expected to increase the frequency and severity of droughts. These
events, which can cause significant perturbations of terrestrial ecosystems and potentially …

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 …

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 …

Meteorological drought is one of the driving forces behind agricultural drought. The
response of agricultural drought to meteorological drought remains poorly understood under …

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

Understanding the impacts of drought and climate change on vegetation dynamics is of
great significance in terms of formulating vegetation management strategies and predicting …

A major challenge for advancing our understanding of the functional role of soil microbial
communities is to link changes in their structure and function under climate change. To …

Understanding, modeling, and predicting the impact of global change on ecosystem
functioning across biogeographical gradients can benefit from enhanced capacity to …

We evaluated the response of the Earth land biomes to drought by correlating a drought
index with three global indicators of vegetation activity and growth: vegetation indices from …

In view of future changes in climate, it is important to better understand how different plant
functional groups (PFG s) respond to warmer and drier conditions, particularly in temperate …