Mechanistic models of community assembly state that biotic and abiotic filters constrain
species establishment through selection on their functional traits. Predicting this assembly …

Context Ecological research and an effective forest management need accurate information
on the structure of the forest canopy to understand the biochemical, physiological and …

Background Temperate forest understorey vegetation poses an excellent study system to
investigate whether increases in resource availability lead to an increase in plant species …

1. Nutrients are a critical resource for plant growth, but the elements limiting growth in
tropical forests have rarely been determined. 2. We investigated the influence of nitrogen …

Vegetation and environment change mutually during secondary succession, yet the
idiosyncrasies of the vegetation effect on the understorey environment are poorly …

Invasive species can change decomposition rates within an ecosystem by changing the
quality of the litter entering a system. It is not known, however, whether or not invasions can …

Quantifying plant drought resistance is important for understanding plant species'
association to microhabitats with different soil moisture availability and their distribution …

This study presents the results of a comparison of digital and film hemispherical
photography as means of characterizing forest light environments and canopy openness …

Rainforests in eastern Australia have been extensively cleared over the past two centuries.
In recent decades, there have been increasing efforts to reforest some of these cleared …

Functional traits respond to environmental drivers, hence evaluating trait‐environment
relationships across spatial environmental gradients can help to understand how multiple …