There is an increasing interest in landscape‐scale perspectives of ecosystem functioning to
inform policy and conservation decisions. However, we need a better understanding of the …

Plants will experience considerable changes in climate within their geographic ranges over
the next several decades. They may respond by exhibiting niche flexibility and adapting to …

Better understanding the influence of precipitation and temperature on plant assemblages is
needed to predict the effects of climate change. Many studies have examined the …

Interactions between biotic and abiotic factors dictate the response of ecosystems to varying
conditions and disturbances. The importance of the relationship between these factors is …

It remains unclear whether biodiversity buffers ecosystems against climate extremes, which
are becoming increasingly frequent worldwide. Early results suggested that the ecosystem …

The stability of grassland communities informs us about the ability of grasslands to provide
reliable services despite environmental fluctuations. There is large evidence that higher …

Predictive models of plant diversity have typically focused on either a landscape's capacity
for richness (equilibrium models), or on the processes that regulate competitive exclusion …

Much ecological research aims to explain how climate impacts biodiversity and ecosystem-
level processes through functional traits that link environment with individual performance …

Biodiversity is declining in many local communities while also becoming increasingly
homogenized across space. Experiments show that local plant species loss reduces …

Studies of ecosystem responses to climate change often focus on potential equilibria in
species or community distributions, overlooking the transitions to new equilibrium states …