Much research has been devoted to identify the conditions under which selection favours flexible individuals or genotypes that are able to modify their growth, development and …
Understanding the ecological consequences of biodiversity is a fundamental challenge. Research on a key component of biodiversity, genetic diversity, has traditionally focused on …
THE EVOLUTIONARY STRATEGIES THAT SHAPE ECOSYSTEMS In 1837 a young Charles Darwin took his notebook, wrote “I think”, and then sketched a rudimentary, stick-like tree …
Today's scientists are facing the enormous challenge of predicting how climate change will affect species distributions and species assemblages. To do so, ecologists are widely using …
Trait‐based approaches applied to community ecology have led to a considerable advance in understanding the effect of environmental filters on species assembly. Although plant …
Plant species diversity regulates the productivity 1–3 and stability 2, 4 of natural ecosystems, along with their resilience to disturbance 5, 6. The influence of species diversity on the …
M Kleyer, S Dray, F Bello, J Lepš… - Journal of vegetation …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Question How do multivariate methods perform in relating species‐and community‐level trait responses to the environment? Location (1) Field data from grazed semi‐natural …
JP Grime, JD Fridley, AP Askew… - Proceedings of the …, 2008 - National Acad Sciences
Climate shifts over this century are widely expected to alter the structure and functioning of temperate plant communities. However, long-term climate experiments in natural vegetation …
A Forsman, L Wennersten - Ecography, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Biological diversity is threatened by exploitation, fragmentation of natural habitats, pollution, climate change, and anthropogenic spread of species. The question of how among …