Silicon versus carbon mediates defensive strategies of two dominant congeneric trees across subtropical forest elevations How subtropical trees modulate leaf Si- and C-based defenses across elevations is poorly understood. Comparing traits of two Castanopsis species revealed t

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Silicon versus carbon mediates defensive strategies of two dominant congeneric trees across subtropical forest elevations

#Carbon_basedDefense | #Silicon_basedDefense | #SubtropicalDominantTrees | #PlantFunctionalTraits

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Functional traits explain the enhancement of denitrification by wetland plants Plant functional traits affect the extent to which denitrification is enhanced by wetland plants through both direct and indirect pathways. Through constru

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Functional traits explain the enhancement of #Denitrification by wetland plants

#EcosystemFunctioning | #EcologicalProcessesAndPathways | #PlantFunctionalTraits | #StructuralEquationModel

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Forum 📜: Rethinking community-weighted means: why geometric averages matter

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#CommunityWeightedMean #GeometricMean #LogNormalDistribution #PlantFunctionalTraits #TraitBasedEcology #TraitEnvironmentRelationship

Phylogenetic trees of vascular plant communities under different disturbance intensities.

Moderate disturbance enhances functional and phylogenetic #Diversity, promoting ecosystem resilience through greater niche and evolutionary space. But excessive disturbance leads to homogenization and instability in #Wetlands.

#DisturbanceIntensity | #PlantFunctionalTraits

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Grassland plant species with slow-growing strategy are more resistant to extreme drought Abstract. The frequency and intensity of extreme droughts are increasing and are predicted to be more severe in the coming decades. Clarifying the reasons

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Grassland plant species with slow-growing strategy are more resistant to extreme drought

#EcosystemStability #PlantFunctionalTraits #Resistance #SemiaridGrasslandLeafEconomicSpectrum

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Cultivar mixtures increase stability and productivity over time through asynchrony and complementarity - Agronomy for Sustainable Development Crop cultivar mixtures commonly increase productivity in the short term and stabilize or enhance productivity in the long term. However, these effects can be highly variable, likely due to limited res...

Su, Y., Zhang, WP., Zhao, JH. et al. Cultivar mixtures increase stability and productivity over time through asynchrony and complementarity. Agron. Sustain. Dev. 45, 20 (2025).
doi.org/10.1007/s135...
#IntraspecificDiversity #PlantFunctionalTraits

Model evidence of trade-off between growing season length and vegetation growth.

Fandong Meng et al. explored the physiological effect of changes in growing season length through #CommonGarden experiments on the #Qinghai−TibetanPlateau.

#LeafEconomicSpectrum | #PlantFunctionalTraits | #Phenology

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Disturbance-driven variation in soil characteristics, plant functional traits, and biodiversity in wetlands Abstract. Wetlands are ecologically critical ecosystems increasingly impacted by anthropogenic disturbances. Understanding how disturbance shapes plant com

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Disturbance-driven variation in soil characteristics, #PlantFunctionalTraits, and biodiversity in #Wetlands

#DisturbanceIntensity | #SoilPhysicochemicalProperties | #Diversity

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Experimental evidence of trade-off between growing season length and plant growth.

🔎 Growing season length ♾️【Trade-off】♾️ herbaceous growth

Reason:
Growing season length⬆️, photosynthetic efficiency⬇️

#LeafEconomicSpectrum | #PlantFunctionalTraits | #Phenology | #CommonGarden | #TibetanPlateau

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Ecological indicators predict functional diversity dynamics following glacier retreat Abstract. The retreat of glaciers due to climate change is reshaping mountain landscapes and biodiversity. While previous research has documented vegetatio

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Ecological indicators predict functional diversity dynamics following #GlacierRetreat

#AlpineEcosystems | #BiodiversityChange | #CommunityDynamics | #GlobalWarming | #LandoltValues | #PlantFunctionalTraits

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ITV-net: a dataset of intraspecific leaf traits data across major Italian habitats Over the last decades plant ecology has greatly benefited from open data on functional traits. Nowadays, several national and international trait databases are available, but trait data from Southe...

📢 ITV-net: the first Italian database on #PlantFunctionalTraits with #IntraspecificTraitVariability 🌱

ITV-net includes over 8,500 leaf trait records (LA/SLA) for 709 plant species across 8 Italian habitats, from coastal dunes to alpine grasslands.

#EnviXLab

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Plant functional traits and community characteristics jointly shape soil carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus storage in passively restored wetlands following agricultural abandonment Abstract. Wetland reclamation disrupts original biogeomorphic processes, making passive restoration after agricultural abandonment a key near‒natural solut

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#PlantFunctionalTraits and community characteristics jointly shape soil carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus storage in passively restored wetlands following agricultural abandonment

#FreshwaterWetlands #NaturalRestoration

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Location of the study area in the lagoon of Marano and Grado in the northern Adriatic Sea (a), the barrier islands and 10 sampling areas (b) and an example of 10 points distribution inside each sampling area (San Andrea island) (c).

Effects of soil conductivity (a–c), organic carbon content in soil (d–f) and nitrogen content in soil (g–i) on standardized species cover (abundance) between status (native = solid line, alien = dashed line) and within habitats (vertical columns).

【💡High Cited 2020-2022 】
Contrasting responses of native and #AlienPlantSpecies to soil properties shed new light on the invasion of #DuneSystems

🔗Core:
the interplay between #SoilNutrients, soil salinity and #PlantFunctionalTraits

#PlantCommunities

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Relationship between preserved-leaf pH (a–c) and fresh-leaf pH.

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Comparison of pretreatment, preservation and determination methods for foliar pH of plant samples

#Green/senescedLeaf | #PlantFunctionalTraits | #SamplePreservation | #Specification/standard/protocol | #LeafWaterRatio | #Transformation/conversionEquation

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Grazing effects on the relationship between #PlantFunctionalDiversity and #SoilCarbonSequestration regulated by livestock species

#GrasslandEcosystem | #GrazingManagement | #PlantFunctionalTraits

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The relationships between LCC and climate environmental factors.

⭐ Variation in #LeafConstructionCost (LCC) and #EnvironmentalDrivers in China
Results:
1️⃣ woody plants🌳 > nonwoody plants🌿;
2️⃣ latitudinal / longitude ⬆️, LCC ⬇️;
3️⃣ altitude ⬆️, LCC ⬆️;
4️⃣ Primary drivers: climate and soil.
#PlantFunctionalTraits
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Demography of exotic plant species in China

In order to clarify the relationship between #PlantFunctionalTraits and #InvasionLevel, Yueyan Pan et al. established a #PredictionModel, found that exotic plant species with longer #SeedBank longevity and lower #SeedDryMass were more likely to be invasive in China.
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I am so looking forward to this! #seeds #plantfunctionaltraits #mountains 🧪🏔️🌐🌾🍃👩‍🔬

Learn about root traits in Czech Republic this September with the Go Belowground course. Applications due in May.

🧪🌏🌾 #trait #ecology #roots #PlantFunctionalTraits #botany #ecr

#EcologyInTheAndes 1st day of our last 2024 #field activity: collecting #PlantFunctionalTraits for high-#Andean #wetland plants in #Ayacucho (#Peru) at 4400m elevation. We were welcomed by amazing #landscapes but lot's of rain and hail the rest of the day 1/3

#Peru_BMAP #Biodiversity #Monitoring