A broad and diversified group of compounds, secondary metabolites, are known to govern
species interactions in ecosystems. Recent studies have shown that secondary metabolites …

Comparative functional ecology seeks to understand why and how ecological systems and
their components operate differently across environments. Although traditionally used in …

Plant functional traits are the features (morphological, physiological, phenological) that
represent ecological strategies and determine how plants respond to environmental factors …

A major goal of remote sensing is the development of generalizable algorithms to repeatedly
and accurately map ecosystem properties across space and time. Imaging spectroscopy has …

Abstract Background In the Mediterranean climate, plants have evolved under conditions of
low soil-water and nutrient availabilities and have acquired a series of adaptive traits that, in …

Background and aims Our objectives were to evaluate changes in soil aggregate stability
along a successional gradient, located in severely eroded Mediterranean gully bed …

Cover crops can produce ecosystem services during the fallow period, as reducing nitrate
leaching and producing green manure. Crop growth rate (CGR) and crop nitrogen …

Questions One central assumption of trait screening approaches in comparative plant
ecology, ie simultaneous measurement of traits on a large number of species or populations …

In recent years, attempts have been made in linking pressure–volume parameters and the
leaf economics spectrum to expand our knowledge of the interrelationships among leaf …

Leaf litter decomposition is a key component of global biogeochemical cycles that influence
soil carbon storage, nutrient availability and plant productivity. Ongoing climate change will …