Numerous current efforts seek to improve the representation of ecosystem ecology and
vegetation demographic processes within Earth System Models (ESM s). These …

Synthesizing trait observations and knowledge across the Tree of Life remains a grand
challenge for biodiversity science. Species traits are widely used in ecological and …

Global vegetation and land‐surface models embody interdisciplinary scientific
understanding of the behaviour of plants and ecosystems, and are indispensable to project …

Leaf area (LA), mass per area (LMA), nitrogen per unit area (Narea) and the leaf‐internal to
ambient CO2 ratio (χ) are fundamental traits for plant functional ecology and vegetation …

Plants and vegetation play a critical—but largely unpredictable—role in global
environmental changes due to the multitude of contributing processes at widely different …

While Amazonian forests are extraordinarily diverse, the abundance of trees is skewed
strongly towards relatively few 'hyperdominant'species. In addition to their diversity …

Vegetation and the water cycles are inherently coupled across a wide range of spatial and
temporal scales. Water availability interacts with plant ecophysiology and controls …

The first generation of forest free‐air CO 2 enrichment (FACE) experiments has successfully
provided deeper understanding about how forests respond to an increasing CO 2 …

We describe an implementation of the Ecosystem Demography (ED) concept in the
Community Land Model. The structure of CLM (ED) and the physiological and structural …

Plants are expected to face increasing water stress under future climate change. Most land
surface models, including Noah‐MP, employ an idealized “big‐leaf” concept to regulate …