Trait‐based approaches have improved our understanding of plant evolution, community
assembly and ecosystem functioning. A major challenge for the upcoming decades is to …

Climate change is happening due to natural factors and human activities. It expressively
alters biodiversity, agricultural production, and food security. Mainly, narrowly adapted and …

Evidence for declining populations of both wild and managed bees has raised concern
about a potential global pollination crisis. Strategies to mitigate bee loss generally aim to …

Plant traits–the morphological, anatomical, physiological, biochemical and phenological
characteristics of plants and their organs–determine how primary producers respond to …

Motivation Although dispersal ability is one of the key features determining the spatial
dynamics of plant populations and the structure of plant communities, it is also one of the …

The expected upward shift of trees due to climate warming is supposed to be a major threat
to range‐restricted high‐altitude species by shrinking the area of their suitable habitats. Our …

Cultivation and crop** are major causes of destruction and degradation of natural
ecosystems throughout the world. We face the challenge of maintaining provisioning …

Increasing temperatures are driving rapid upward range shifts of species in mountains. An
altitudinal range retreat of 10 m is predicted to translate into a∼ 10-km latitudinal retreat …

Humans fundamentally affect dispersal, directly by transporting individuals and indirectly by
altering landscapes and natural vectors. This human-mediated dispersal (HMD) modifies …

Question: How many vegetation plot observations (relevés) are available in electronic
databases, how are they geographically distributed, what are their properties and how might …