Interactions between plants and microbes have important influences on evolutionary
processes, population dynamics, community structure, and ecosystem function. We review …

Carrying capacity is a key concept in ecology. A body of theory, based on the logistic
equation, has extended predictions of carrying capacity to spatially distributed, dispersing …

Primary production, a key regulator of the global carbon cycle, is highly responsive to
variations in climate. Yet, a detailed, continental‐scale risk assessment of climate‐related …

Monitoring and mapping the sensitivity of grassland ecosystems to climate change is crucial
for developing sustainable local grassland management strategies. The sensitivity of alpine …

Climate‐change assessments project increasing precipitation variability through increased
frequency of extreme events. However, the effects of interannual precipitation variance per …

The variations in net primary productivity (NPP) and its controls are critical to understand the
mechanisms that maintain ecosystem services under ongoing climate change and human …

Soil organic matter (SOM) stocks, decomposition and persistence are largely the product of
controls that act locally. Yet the controls are shaped and interact at multiple spatiotemporal …

Abstract Net Primary Productivity (NPP) has been widely used to estimate the productivity of
the farmland ecosystem (FES) and the carbon budget of the terrestrial ecosystem. Changes …

Precipitation alteration and nitrogen (N) deposition caused by anthropogenic activities could
profoundly affect the structure and functioning of plant communities in arid ecosystems …

In restoration ecology, the transition from desired to degraded state is based solely on the
composition of the aboveground plant community, whereas belowground propagules are …