Lianas are a quintessential tropical plant growth-form; they are speciose and abundant in
tropical forests worldwide. Lianas compete intensely with trees, reducing nearly all aspects …

The ongoing climate crisis represents a growing threat for plants and other organisms.
However, how and if plants will be able to adapt to future environmental conditions is still …

The conservation of threatened species and the restoration of ecosystems have emerged as
crucial ecological prerequisites in the context of a changing global environment. One such …

Climate change is altering temperature and precipitation, resulting in widespread plant
mortality and shifts in plant distributions. Plants growing in soil types with low water holding …

Fire is a major disturbance affecting plant communities in terrestrial ecosystems.
Understanding fire effects on soil seed banks is critical in the context of altered global fire …

Wild licorice in China is mainly distributed in northern China, such as Gansu, Ningxia, and
Inner Mongolia Provinces. The origin of wild licorice has varied among historical periods …

During the “decade on restoration,” we must understand how to reliably re‐establish native
plant populations. When establishing populations through seed addition, practitioners often …

Functional traits of mountain grassland communities strongly depend upon temperature
variation along elevational gradients. However, little is known to what degree the direction of …

Understanding how tree individuals allocate nonstructural carbohydrate (NSC) between
storage and growth is key to reveal the mechanism of alpine treeline formation as well as its …

When plant populations show local adaptation along climatic gradients, climate change may
displace them from their current fitness optima. Unclear is whether foreign genotypes …