The composition of plant functional traits varies in response to environmental conditions due to processes of community assembly and species sorting. However, there is a lack of …
Aim For practical and theoretical purposes, ecological studies commonly classify trees into five major life‐cycle stages: seed, seedling, sapling, juvenile and adult. Whereas the seed …
MM Al-Gharaibeh, HA Bakhit, S Masadeh… - Global Ecology and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Habitat loss, fragmentation, and climate change present significant threats to global plant biodiversity. Small and isolated populations residing in threatened habitats at the edge of …
Understanding how widespread species adapt to variation in abiotic conditions across their ranges is fundamental to ecology. Insight may come from studying how among‐population …
The recruitment life stage, including germination and early seedling establishment, is the most vulnerable life stage of plants and has cascading effects on plant performance at later …
The global biodiversity crisis is driven by a complex set of human-caused disturbances across different spatial scales. Such disturbances not only cause species losses but also …