Since the early 1990s, ecologists and evolutionary biologists have aggregated primary
research using meta‐analytic methods to understand ecological and evolutionary …

Abstract The Kunming–Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (KM-GBF) provides a major
impetus for the restoration and conservation of blue carbon ecosystems to address the …

Anthropogenic activities profoundly impact soil organic carbon (SOC), affecting its
contribution to ecosystem services such as climate regulation. Here, we conducted a …

Quantitative understanding of vegetation vulnerability under drought stress is essential to
initiating drought preparedness and mitigation. In this study, a bivariate probabilistic …

“Classic” forest plots show the effect sizes from individual studies and the aggregate effect
from a meta‐analysis. However, in ecology and evolution, meta‐analyses routinely contain …

Wetlands cover a small portion of the world, but have disproportionate influence on global
carbon (C) sequestration, carbon dioxide and methane emissions, and aquatic C fluxes …

Coastal wetlands such as mangrove forests and saltmarshes provide a range of important
benefits to people, broadly defined as ecosystem services. These include provisioning …

Context Livestock grazing, a common method of grassland utilization, has profound effects
on the plant biomass and biodiversity of grassland ecosystems. However, the overall …

Vegetation can contribute to coastal defence by dam** incoming waves. However, prior
studies have shown that attenuation varies greatly among plant species. Plant flexibility is a …

Grassland degradation has caused increasingly prominent conflict between ecological
environment conservation and socioeconomic development in the Qilian Mountains, China …