The impact on nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) cycles of human activity is a growing concern and has several causes and consequences (MacDonald et al., 2011; Peñuelas et …
Plant functional traits can predict community assembly and ecosystem functioning and are thus widely used in global models of vegetation dynamics and land–climate feedbacks. Still …
Plant traits—the morphological, anatomical, physiological, biochemical and phenological characteristics of plants—determine how plants respond to environmental factors, affect …
Earth is home to a remarkable diversity of plant forms and life histories, yet comparatively few essential trait combinations have proved evolutionarily viable in today's terrestrial …
Phenotypic traits and their associated trade-offs have been shown to have globally consistent effects on individual plant physiological functions,,, but how these effects scale up …
Question Are plant traits more closely correlated with mean annual temperature, or with mean annual precipitation? Location Global. Methods We quantified the strength of the …
Plant traits–the morphological, anatomical, physiological, biochemical and phenological characteristics of plants and their organs–determine how primary producers respond to …
Every living creature on Earth is made of atoms of the various bioelements that are harnessed in the construction of molecules, tissues, organisms, and communities, as we …