Veins are a critical component of the plant growth and development system, playing an
integral role in supporting and protecting leaves, as well as transporting water, nutrients, and …

Background and aims Root-released carboxylates enhance the availability of manganese
(Mn), which enters roots through transporters with low substrate specificity. Leaf Mn …

Specific leaf area (SLA) is an essential functional trait and indicator for estimating plant
strategies in response to environmental changes. Intraspecific and interspecific variations of …

The relative importance of intraspecific trait variation (rITV) for functional diversity (FD) in
plant communities is increasingly apparent, but the influence of abiotic factors on the …

The response of leaf functional traits can provide vital insight into the adaptive strategies of
plants under global change. However, empirical knowledge on the acclimation of functional …

The evolution of the leaf economics spectrum (LES) is known to be constrained by genetic
relatedness but also promoted at small geographical and phylogenetic scales. In those …

Introduction The drought and phosphorus deficiency have inevitably become environmental
issues globally in the future. The analysis of plants functional trait variation and response …

Theories explaining community assembly assume that biotic and abiotic filters sort species
into communities based on the values of their traits and are thus based on between‐species …

In China, dauciform roots were hardly studied and only reported in alpine meadows, where
sedges showed a different tendency from other functional groups such as grasses and forbs …

Croplands exert a strong influence on the land–atmosphere coupling and the surface
exchanges of heat, water vapor, and momentum. The current trend is incorporating crop …