Vegetation composition shifts, and in particular, shrub expansion across the Arctic tundra
are some of the most important and widely observed responses of high-latitude ecosystems …

The supply of nitrogen commonly limits plant production in boreal forests and also affects
species composition and ecosystem functions other than plant growth. These interrelations …

Plant functional traits can predict community assembly and ecosystem functioning and are
thus widely used in global models of vegetation dynamics and land–climate feedbacks. Still …

Plant functional traits are the features (morphological, physiological, phenological) that
represent ecological strategies and determine how plants respond to environmental factors …

There is growing recognition that classifying terrestrial plant species on the basis of their
function (into'functional types') rather than their higher taxonomic identity, is a promising way …

Stay-green (sometimes staygreen) refers to the heritable delayed foliar senescence
character in model and crop plant species. In a cosmetic stay-green, a lesion interferes with …

Plants adapt phenotypically to different conditions of light and nutrient supply, supposedly in
order to achieve colimitation of these resources. Their key variable of adjustment is the ratio …

The links between plant diversity and ecosystem functioning remain highly controversial.
There is a growing consensus, however, that functional diversity, or the value and range of …

Boreal forests harbour diverse fungal communities with decisive roles in decomposition and
plant nutrition. Although changes in boreal plant communities along gradients in soil acidity …

Publisher Summary In this chapter, the advances that have been made in understanding the
ecology of the mineral nutrition of wild plants from terrestrial ecosystems have been …