In the context of a recent massive increase in research on plant root functions and their
impact on the environment, root ecologists currently face many important challenges to keep …

A longstanding research divide exists in plant ecology: either focusing on plant clonality,
with no ambition to address nonclonal plants, or focusing on all plants, ignoring that many …

Clonal plants play key roles in maintaining community productivity and stability in many
ecosystems. Connected individuals (ramets) of clonal plants can translocate and share, for …

A rapid warming in Himalayas is predicted to increase plant upper distributional limits,
vegetation cover and abundance of species adapted to warmer climate. We explored these …

Clonal growth of plants is attained by a number of morphologically different organs (eg
stolons, rhizomes, and roots), which are not functionally equivalent. Consequently, these …

Abstract Background and Aims The response of subarctic grassland's below-ground to soil
warming is key to understanding this ecosystem's adaptation to future climate. Functionally …

Question: The vegetation of high mountain regions in Himalaya remains poorly assessed
despite the expected vulnerability of these ecosystems to global change drivers. What are …

By mainly focusing on leaves and roots, functional ecology has been omitting an important
dimension of plant form and function. Horizontal spacers (rooting stems and roots with …

How plants allocate their biomass to different organs is essential to understanding plant
adaptations and distributions. Overall, biomass allocation may follow fixed rules across taxa …

Although phototrophic microbial communities are important components of soils in arid and
semi-arid ecosystems around the world, the knowledge of their taxonomic composition and …