Functional and phylogenetic diversity (FD and PD respectively) of the resident community
are expected to exert a key role in community resistance to colonization by surrounding …

Spontaneous urban plants (SUPs) constitute an important component of urban vegetation,
but they have received less attention in urban biodiversity and ecological research …

The enormous variation in seed mass along gradients of soil resources has fascinated plant
ecologists for decades. However, so far, this research has focused on the description of such …

Traditional land-use cessation allows the spread of invasive tall-grass species and thus
leads to a reduction in grassland biodiversity. We hypothesized that long-term multi-year …

Biological invasion is a global environmental problem that has profound effects on the
natural ecosystem. To gain in-depth understandings on how biological invasion affects the …

The large variation in seed mass among species inspired a vast array of theoretical and
empirical research attempting to explain this variation. So far, seed mass variation was …

Mowing is a suitable practice to restore the grassland coenological composition after
invasion of tall-grasses. However, how it affects the tall-grass intraspecific variation is still …

Cities have become the main abodes for humans, and landscape plant species with their
notable influence on the quality of life, are important components of the urban ecosystem …

Questions Climbers do not invest in self‐supporting architecture, allowing them to grow
quickly and search for light and nutrients in canopy gaps. The climbing strategy requires …

Weed is a crucial problem in agricultural system, as well as the non-cropland region.
Enormous amount of herbicides has been used to control weeds, causing environmental …