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 …

Macroclimatic variation along latitudinal gradients provides an excellent natural laboratory to
investigate the role of temperature and the potential impacts of climate warming on terrestrial …

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

In a world increasingly modified by human activities, the conservation of biodiversity is
essential as insurance to maintain resilient ecosystems and ensure a sustainable flow of …

By integrating a wide range of experimental, comparative, and theoretical approaches,
ecologists are starting to gain a detailed understanding of the long-term dynamics of …

▪ Abstract The diversity of woodland herbs is one of the most striking features of deciduous
forests in the temperate zone. Here I review the literature on the ecology of woodland herbs …

Particularly in the temperate climate zone many forests have, at some moment in their
history, been used as agriculture land. Forest cover is therefore often not as stable as it …

In this paper, I analyse the interaction between the holm‐oak Quercus ilex, and one of its
main dispersers, the European jay Garrulus glandarius, in an heterogeneous Mediterranean …

1 Classifying species by shared functional characteristics is important if common functional
response groups are to be identified among different taxa. 2 We investigated plant traits that …

This paper examines four key mechanisms of the seed size/number trade‐off (SSNT)
models to assess their relevance to a general understanding of plant community structure …