Productive grasslands in temperate regions have relied strongly on low plant diversity with
high management intensity and fertiliser inputs. Increasing plant diversity can provide high …

Vulnerability, resilience, robustness and adaptive capacity are four key concepts that
characterize dynamics of systems when disturbance occurs. However, rendering them …

Winter wheat production is influenced by climate extremes worldwide. Heavy precipitation
induced delay of sowing generates limited photothermal resources for wheat early growth …

Soil microbial networks play a crucial role in plant community stability. However, we lack
knowledge on the network topologies associated with stability and the pathways sha** …

How biodiversity underpins ecosystem resistance (ie ability to withstand environmental
perturbations) and recovery (ie ability to return to a pre‐perturbation state), and thus, stability …

Extreme weather events are increasing in frequency and magnitude with profound effects on
ecosystem functioning. Further, there is now a greater likelihood that multiple extreme …

Above-and belowground linkages are responsible for some of the most important ecosystem
processes in unmanaged terrestrial systems including net primary production …

Priority effects, the effects of early‐arriving species on late‐arriving species, are caused by
niche preemption and/or niche modification. The strength of priority effects can be …

Ecological stoichiometric studies can be useful for managing the deteriorated riparian zones
of mega-reservoirs in which nutrients significantly impact the balanced vegetation cover. The …

Plant functional traits, including leaf and root economic traits, are important for
understanding the composition and function of ecosystems. However, plant functional traits …