Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies

This study shows herbivory can increase plant fitness by reducing interspecific competition, supported by models and mesocosm experiments.

The paper surveys alien plant species in Hungarian garden centres, finding they host a significant proportion of local alien flora and may act as invasion hubs.

rarestR estimates α- and β-diversity for incomplete samples using rarefaction metrics and parametric extrapolations, offering visualization tools for curve fitting.

This study shows that pawpaw patches reduce local species diversity and community size while increasing beta-diversity and randomness in community composition.

The paper tests coexistence theory's ability to predict extinction under rising temperatures in a competitive ecological system, finding limited predictive precision despite identifying stressor interactions.

This study shows that plant communities drive insect diversity in South African savannahs, with climate and disturbances indirectly shaping these patterns through their effects on vegetation.

The paper assesses how human land use affects plant functional diversity across Europe, finding lower functional richness and divergence but higher evenness in disturbed areas.

This study examines how climate change and grassland management affect plant population dynamics, finding that extreme drought events can lead to quasi-extinction and that reproductive success is critical for population growth.

This study shows that Erythranthe guttata exhibits significant adaptive differentiation between upland and lowland populations despite high plasticity, indicating genetic adaptation can co-occur with phenotypic plasticity.

This study compares taxon-based and trait-based community structures in zooplankton using 87 reservoirs, finding environmental factors explain more variation in trait-based structures than spatial factors.

This study shows that connectivity loss in pond networks reduces microeukaryote diversity and increases extinction, while prokaryote diversity remains largely unaffected.

The paper surveys historical yarrow populations to assess local adaptation to climate change, finding persistence with phenotypic and metabolic differentiation, but local extinction in the hottest and driest site.

The paper tests passive and active restoration strategies in oil palm landscapes, showing that planted tree diversity enhances natural regeneration and multifaceted diversity recovery.

The paper uses population models to show that negative density dependence, not other mechanisms, explains the persistence of a rare plant species, highlighting the importance of seed banks in population dynamics.

The paper examines how interspecific trait differences influence plant community responses to nickel-rich serpentine soils, finding that community-level trait shifts are driven by an endemic species.

This paper develops a new framework to partition functional and phylogenetic β diversity, showing how it differs from species β diversity and highlighting the role of clustering, overdispersion, redundancy, and uniqueness in community structure.

The paper measures seed rain in restored and remnant tallgrass prairies to understand how seed rain quantity, diversity, and composition change over time and during community assembly.

This paper introduces a method to quantify response diversity in multifarious environmental change scenarios, showing how it depends on species response diversity, environmental variable effects, correlations, and temporal values.

The paper investigates how functional traits predict competition outcomes between current and novel plant species under climate change, finding that traits explain competition better at lower elevations.

The paper shows that climate and management changes over 40 years led to more stress-tolerant and less competitive plant communities in vineyards.

The paper maps vascular plant species richness in Poland and finds positive correlations among native, neophyte, and conservation-value species, highlighting invasion threats and hotspot locations.

This paper develops a framework to quantify biodiversity-ecosystem multifunctionality by analyzing multilayer ecological networks, revealing keystone species and functional patterns.

The paper introduces a long-term tree diversity experiment to study how species diversity and composition affect ecosystem function and resilience, with findings showing higher mortality in monocultures and the importance of diversity in reducing tree mortality.

This study quantifies biodiversity loss in Southeast Asia due to land use change and finds oil-palm plantations cause the greatest reduction.

The paper critiques the InsectChange database, highlighting methodological flaws that undermine its reliability for studying global insect trends and their drivers.

The paper evaluates plant invasion rates globally, finding invasion rates up to 25% and higher vulnerability in tropical regions, challenging the 'tens rule' and recommending updated management practices.

The paper shows that ecological systems develop in a sequenced order from fast-to slow-growing taxa due to environmental resistance minimization, supported by theoretical and empirical evidence.

The paper examines how genetic and species diversity affect ecosystem functions across trophic levels, finding they have opposite impacts.

This study investigates how plant neighbors influence resource allocation and biotic interactions through above- and belowground processes, showing neighbor identity affects plant function and microbial relationships.

The paper shows that species interactions, not environmental noise, drive continuous community assembly in freshwater ecosystems over time.