Societal Impact Statement There is increasing awareness that plants and fungi, as natural
solutions, can play an important role in tackling ongoing global environmental challenges …

Research over the past decade has shown that quantifying spatial variation in ecosystem
properties is an effective approach to investigating the effects of environmental change on …

The life span of leaves increases with their mass per unit area (LMA). It is unclear why. Here,
we show that this empirical generalization (the foundation of the worldwide leaf economics …

Abstract The Triassic–Jurassic transition, which is here broadly defined as extending from
the Late Triassic through the Early Jurassic (~ 237 Ma to 174 Ma), was an important interval …

The end-Triassic mass extinction (ETE;~ 201.6 million years ago) led to dramatic changes in
terrestrial ecosystems including the extinction of several seed-plant groups. Among the most …

Abstract Climate change (“global warming”) is expected to exert serious negative effects on
biodiversity. Knowledge and understanding of non-anthropogenic climate changes in …

Terrestrial plants have transformed Earth's surface environments by altering water, energy,
and biogeochemical cycles. Studying vegetation-climate interaction in deep time has …

Abstract The Triassic (252–201 Ma) marks a major punctuation in Earth history, when
ecosystems rebuilt themselves following the devastating Permian-Triassic mass extinction …

Rising temperature associated with climate change may have substantial impacts on forest
tree functions. We conducted a 7‐year warming experiment in subtropical China by …

Human carbon use during the next century will lead to atmospheric carbon dioxide
concentrations (p CO2) that have been unprecedented for the past 50–100+ million years …