Climate change threatens global food and nutritional security through negative effects on
crop growth and agricultural productivity. Many countries have adopted ambitious climate …

Climate change is expected to increase the frequency and severity of droughts. These
events, which can cause significant perturbations of terrestrial ecosystems and potentially …

Long-term research in grassland biodiversity experiments has provided empirical evidence
that ecological and evolutionary processes are intertwined in determining both biodiversity …

Water stress affects the growth, development, and yield of crops. The objective of this study
is to evaluate the positive effects of nutrients (calcium, potassium, and boron) on durum …

Increasing aridity over the last six decades has resulted in severe degradation of ecosystem
functioning and structure in the dry-hot valley savanna. It remains largely uncertain whether …

Plants and soil microbes are often challenged by multiple global change factors (GCFs), and
their responses to single GCFs may differ from those to multiple GCFs due to synergistic or …

Biodiversity is considered important to the mitigation of global change impacts on ecosystem
multifunctionality in terrestrial ecosystems. However, potential mechanisms through which …

Plant litter is known to affect soil, community, and ecosystem properties. However, we know
little about the capacity of litter to modulate grassland responses to climate change. Using a …

Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning (BEF) often correlate positively with BEF studies
focusing mostly on plant diversity manipulations. Plant performance is directly and indirectly …

Spatial heterogeneity in plant-soil feedbacks (PSFs) has been evidenced to influence plant
growth. However, it is unclear whether patch size and contrast of PSF heterogeneity …