Functional traits mechanistically capture plant responses to environmental gradients as well
as plant effects on ecosystem functioning. Yet most trait‐based theory stems from terrestrial …

Summary 1 The stress‐gradient hypothesis (SGH) predicts that the frequency of facilitative
and competitive interactions will vary inversely across abiotic stress gradients, with …

Understanding and predicting vegetation patterns in floodplains are essential for
conservation and/or restoration of river floodplains subject to hydrological alterations. We …

Plant functional types (or guilds) increasingly are being used to predict vegetation response
to global changes. Continued human population growth coupled with projected warmer and …

Can CSR theory, in conjunction with a recently proposed globally calibrated CSR ordination
(“StrateFy”), using only three easily measured leaf traits (leaf area, specific leaf area and leaf …

Grasslands, wet meadows, fens, bogs, and marshes represent important ecosystems that
host many orchid species. However, research on the joint effect of the multi-scalar abiotic …

Abstract Biodiversity of Central European semi-natural upland grasslands is steadily
declining, due to either abandonment or management intensification. Although there are …

Plant species composition influences belowground ecosystem function. However, there are
few data on the interactive effects of plant diversity and soil function. We surveyed plant …

The trade-off between allocation to sexual and clonal reproduction in clonal plants is
influenced by a variety of environmental factors; however, it has rarely been examined under …

Ecological theory suggests that environmental filtering (the survival or elimination of species
in the community in response to environmental constraints) is a key process in the species …