Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies

The paper shows that fast-slow growth strategies influence competition network structure and how it responds to nutrients and pathogens.

The paper introduces a competitive partitioning model to distinguish effects of species interactions on ecosystem productivity using simulated and experimental data.

The paper introduces the interstage flow matrix as a population statistic to decompose population growth rate into contributions from developmental stage transitions across different life history groups.

The paper assesses elevational trends in taxonomic, functional, and phylogenetic diversity of woody plants in Andean tropical montane forests and identifies environmental filtering and temperate taxa arrival as key drivers.

This study examines how urbanization affects moth populations in subtropical environments, finding declines in caterpillar biomass and adult abundance, reduced species richness, and trait-based differences in species responses.

This paper identifies common statistical pitfalls in coexistence studies and proposes a checklist to improve their robustness and reproducibility.

This study examines how forest disturbance affects functional and phylogenetic diversity in arboreal ant communities, finding increased functional diversity in secondary forests despite lower phylogenetic diversity.

This study shows that experimental drought reduces productivity and stability of a recovering calcareous grassland but not community composition or long-term recovery.

This study develops a scalable phylogenetic Gaussian process model to better detect environmental signals on extinction risks for Red List species.

The paper shows that slow and fast functional strategies manifest at the ecosystem level, driven by disturbance and resource availability in grassland communities.

The paper examines how biogeographic context influences diversity-productivity relationships in island and mainland forests, finding that non-native species enhance productivity in island forests.

The paper demonstrates how landscape characteristics influence metacommunity assembly by selecting species pool attributes, using simulations and empirical analysis of moth metacommunities.

The paper examines the relationship between mean annual precipitation and eight plant functional traits, finding a strong coordinated response of traits with increasing precipitation.

The paper introduces a gradient biomass removal design to control biases in plant removal experiments, demonstrating its effectiveness in preventing incorrect conclusions.

The paper identifies assembly archetypes in ecological communities using mathematical formalism and clinical data, distinguishing healthy from unhealthy gut microbiota.

This study quantifies how nutrient addition affects ecological stability facets in grasslands, finding reduced resistance in species richness and community composition but not biomass.

The paper shows increased dispersal can raise local diversity but reduce regional diversity, and may make communities more resistant to invasions despite global biodiversity loss.

This study examines how habitat loss and fragmentation affect plant richness, above-ground biomass, and their relationship in grassland communities using structural equation modeling.

The paper shows that tree species diversity increases productivity by enhancing structural complexity in temperate forests, regardless of mycorrhizal type.

The paper estimates global woody plant diversity using occurrence records, revealing knowledge gaps and conservation priorities in underexplored regions.

The paper introduces GIFT version 3.0, a global plant database with expanded checklists and an R-package for accessing its data.

The paper tests how invasive plants and drought interact to alter microbial functions and families in the rhizosphere of native plants.

This paper reviews trait-based functional dissimilarity indices, identifies key conceptual and technical properties, and evaluates their relationships and capabilities.

This study shows urbanisation causes taxon-specific trait changes in terrestrial species, with reproductive and dietary traits most affected, and identifies four general urban trait syndromes.

This study identifies scale-dependent environmental drivers of terrestrial vertebrate species richness across taxa and continents, finding strong correlations with precipitation and temperature at large scales.

The paper introduces phyloregion, an R package for biogeographic regionalization and spatial conservation analysis, offering faster and more scalable solutions for large phylogenetic datasets.