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

Environmental disturbances often cause individuals to change their behavior. The
behavioral responses can induce a chain of reactions through the network of species …

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

Revealing the role of biodiversity in ecosystem functioning (BEF) has been a major focus of
ecological research over recent decades. In general, results from artificially assembled …

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 …

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

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 …

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 …

Water‐limited ecosystems are highly sensitive to not only precipitation amount, but also
precipitation pattern, particularly variability in the size and timing of growing season rainfall …