Including biodiversity indicators into forest planning is increasing in importance as it is a
supporting service for other ecosystem services. To forecast biodiversity potential, forest …

Human land-use legacies have long-term effects on plant community composition and
ecosystem function. While ancient and historical land use is known to affect biodiversity …

Despite the mounting evidence for positive diversity–productivity relationships found in
controlled experiments, diversity effects on productivity in natural systems remain hotly …

Within the tropics, the species richness of tree communities is strongly and positively
associated with precipitation. Previous research has suggested that this macroecological …

Increasing bio-terror attacks across the world have alarmed the environmentalist and
epidemiologist about the impacts of bioaerosols, especially on human health, ecosystems …

Species' functional traits set the blueprint for pair-wise interactions in ecological networks.
Yet, it is unknown to what extent the functional diversity of plant and animal communities …

Understanding the consequences of extreme climatic events is a growing challenge in
ecology. Climatic extremes may differentially affect varying elements of biodiversity, and may …

Aim Functional traits can help us to elucidate biogeographical and ecological processes
driving assemblage structure. We analysed the functional diversity of plant species of …

Precipitation is a primary determinant of plant community structure in drylands. However, the
empirical evidence and predictions are lacking for how plant functional diversity in desert …

Intraspecific trait variation is hypothesized to influence the relative importance of community
assembly mechanisms. However, few studies have explicitly considered how intraspecific …