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 …

Plants are sessile organisms that, once germinated, have to cope with in situ environmental
conditions for the rest of their life span. These conditions may be favourable for growth and …

Rice (Oryza sativa L.) is a staple cereal crop and its demand is substantially increasing with
the growth of the global population. Precisely predicting rice yields are of vital importance to …

We quantified the biomass allocation patterns to leaves, stems and roots in vegetative
plants, and how this is influenced by the growth environment, plant size, evolutionary history …

Indonesia lost more tropical forest than all of Brazil in 2012, mainly driven by the rubber, oil
palm, and timber industries. Nonetheless, the effects of converting forest to oil palm and …

Severe drought can cause lagged effects on tree physiology that negatively impact forest
functioning for years. These “drought legacy effects” have been widely documented in tree …

Severe droughts in the Northern Hemisphere cause a widespread decline of agricultural
yield, the reduction of forest carbon uptake, and increased CO2 growth rates in the …

Drought affects plants and soil microorganisms, but it is still not clear how it alters the carbon
(C) transfer at the plant–microbial interface. Here, we tested direct and indirect effects of …

Drought affects the carbon (C) source and sink activities of plant organs, with potential
consequences for belowground C allocation, a key process of the terrestrial C cycle. The …

Tree‐rings offer one of the few possibilities to empirically quantify and reconstruct forest
growth dynamics over years to millennia. Contemporaneously with the growing scientific …