Revealing the role of biodiversity in ecosystem functioning (BEF) has been a major focus of
ecological research over recent decades. In general, results from artificially assembled …

In herbaceous communities which host many perennial species, belowground clonal organs
and traits remain largely overlooked in ecosystem functioning studies. However, the …

Questions Cover and biomass serve as common measures of species abundance in plant
ecology. However, the underlying relationship between these two measures and its …

Aims Resurveys of vegetation plots are prone to several errors that can result in misleading
conclusions. Minimizing such errors and finding alternative approaches for analyzing …

A growing number of studies have demonstrated that biodiversity is a strong and positive
predictor of ecosystem temporal stability by simultaneously affecting multiple underlying …

The development of sustainable agriculture necessitates the rapid identification and efficient
removal of invasive plants. Traditionally, the investigation of invasive plants relies on manual …

Vegetation ecologists use a wide range of importance (“abundance”) measures for plant
species in vegetation plots, including percentage cover, ordinal cover scales, frequency and …

Questions The patterns in abundances of plant species and the processes which determine
these patterns have been intensively studied. While recent investigations have recognized …

Quantifying within-community variability and understanding the related assembly rules are
important in developing and assessing grassland restoration. Beta diversity has great …

The impact of ongoing climate change on plant communities varies according to vegetation
type and location across the globe. Snowbed flora count among the most sensitive …