Shade, in ecological sense, is not merely a lack of light, but a multi-faceted phenomenon
that creates new and complex settings for community and ecosystem dynamics. Tolerating …

Organismal movement is ubiquitous and facilitates important ecological mechanisms that
drive community and metacommunity composition and hence biodiversity. In most existing …

Despite great concern for drought‐driven forest mortality, the effects of frequent low‐intensity
droughts have been largely overlooked in the boreal forest because of their negligible …

Microorganism-assisted phytoremediation is being developed as an efficient green
approach for management of toxic metals contaminated soils and mitigating the potential …

Global change is altering patterns of community assembly, with net outcomes dependent on
species' responses to the abiotic environment, both directly and mediated through biotic …

Plant functional ecology requires the quantification of trait variation and its controls. Field
measurements on 483 species at 48 sites across China were used to analyse variation in …

Plant trait variability, emerging from eco-evolutionary dynamics that range from alleles to
macroecological scales, is one of the most elusive, but possibly most consequential, aspects …

Plant–plant interactions are dynamic and complicated processes that strongly influence soil
nutrient cycling in ecosystems. Climate warming-induced drought stress and the duration of …

Higher order interactions (HOIs) have been suggested to stabilize diverse ecological
communities. However, their role in maintaining species coexistence from the perspective of …

Drought-induced growth decline is a phenomenon widely described in forests growing in
regions subjected to seasonal water shortage such as the Mediterranean Basin. However …