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Plant Sciences
Lirong Zhang, Shiping Wang, Xiaoxia Yang, Xiaoyong Cui, Haishan Niu
Summary: There is a strong negative non-linear relationship between stomatal density and size or length, possibly due to a geometric constraint. Angiosperm species, with smaller stomata and lower geometric constraint, are able to adapt to a wider range of environments due to a relaxation of this constraint.
FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE
(2021)
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Biology
Kawika Pierson
Summary: This paper demonstrates that families of divergence-based evenness measures nest and can be ranked based on uniformity changes. By deriving new distance-based measures, it captures the angular distance between relative abundance vectors, providing a highly reactive approach to changes in uniform assemblages.
JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Ecology
Martin Bitomsky, Hanno Schaefer, Robin J. Pakeman, Jitka Klimesova, Lars Gotzenberger, Martin Duchoslav
Summary: This study investigates the relationship between plant mycorrhizal status diversity and soil nutrient availability, taking into account within-plot mycorrhizal status variability. The results show that within-plot variability is more important than between-plot variability in determining mycorrhizal status. Plant mycorrhizal status diversity is positively related to Ca and Mg, but the relationship with Mg varies depending on phylogeny. There is no clear relationship between mycorrhizal status diversity and P, and the relationship with K is inconsistent.
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Plant Sciences
Xiaomei Kang, Yanan Li, Jieyang Zhou, Shiting Zhang, Chenxi Li, Juhong Wang, Wei Liu, Wei Qi
Summary: The research found that temperature is the strongest factor influencing leaf traits, affecting leaf size, shape, stomatal structure, and chemical composition, indicating the important role of local heat quantity in determining variations in leaf morphology and biochemical properties. Additionally, the effects of precipitation and humidity on leaf growth were mainly through their impact on leaf traits related to plant water-use physiological processes.
FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE
(2021)
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Christine C. Rega-Brodsky, Katherine C. B. Weiss, Austin M. Green, Fabiola Iannarilli, Jacquelyn Tleimat, Sarah Fritts, Daniel J. Herrera, M. Caitlin Fisher-Reid, Justin A. Compton, Diana J. R. Lafferty, Maximilian L. Allen
Summary: Ongoing urbanization and land transformation have significant effects on ecosystems and wildlife, potentially leading to functional homogenization of wildlife communities and reduced biodiversity. However, urban development can also benefit some mammal species by providing increased resources and survival opportunities. A study conducted across 107 sites in the United States found that urban development was positively associated with functional richness and other metrics at different spatial scales. Additionally, mammals in areas with greater urban development had smaller home ranges, body sizes, and rates of carnivory and scavenging. Understanding the effects of anthropogenic development on ecosystem functioning and species traits is crucial as urban landscapes continue to expand globally.
Article
Plant Sciences
Chiara Amitrano, Carmen Arena, Valerio Cirillo, Stefania De Pascale, Veronica De Micco
Summary: The study found that plants grown under different VPD conditions exhibited different physiological and anatomical traits. Plants grown under high VPD conditions showed reduced gas exchange parameters such as stomatal density and vein density, leading to decreased photosynthesis and stomatal conductance.
ENVIRONMENTAL AND EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY
(2021)
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Xiaozhuang Zhang, Ying Xue, Chongliang Zhang, Yiping Ren, Binduo Xu, Yong Chen
Summary: Functional diversity has become an essential component of biodiversity in the past two decades, used to evaluate the health of aquatic ecosystems and predict fish community responses to disturbances. Sampling intensity can impact the estimation of functional diversity indices, with accuracy and precision increasing with higher sampling intensity. Functional richness and functional divergence indices are less sensitive to sampling intensity compared to functional evenness indices, and there is seasonal variability in the effects of sampling intensity on the estimation of functional diversity indices.
ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS
(2021)
Article
Forestry
Lin Li, Zhifeng Wen, Shiguang Wei, Juyu Lian, Wanhui Ye
Summary: Functional diversity is crucial for the connection between ecosystem functions and biodiversity, and its understanding is important for community diversity conservation strategies. In this study, a subtropical forest community in China was investigated, and functional diversity indices were calculated based on functional traits of plant species. The results showed significant differences in functional diversity and species diversity indices based on plant habit, as well as correlations among different functional richness and divergence indices. Altitude and other environmental factors also influenced the functional diversity of the community. Soil total phosphorus was identified as the most critical environmental factor. These findings contribute to our understanding of functional diversity in subtropical forests and provide insights for biodiversity conservation in the region.
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Ying Li, Jihua Hou, Li Xu, Mingxu Li, Zhi Chen, Zihao Zhang, Nianpeng He
Summary: This study explored the spatial variation in functional diversity in natural forests in China and found that functional diversity is crucial for determining large-scale variations in GPP and should be integrated into ecological models.
ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS
(2022)
Article
Mathematics
Ronnason Chinram, Tahir Mahmood, Ubaid Ur Rehman, Zeeshan Ali, Aiyared Iampan
Summary: The theory of complex hesitant fuzzy set (CHFS) is a modification technique of the complex fuzzy set (CFS) to handle awkward and unreliable information in daily life issues. CHFS combines hesitant fuzzy set (HFS) and CFS to deal with complex and uncertain information in real-world situations, showing specific mathematical characteristics.
JOURNAL OF MATHEMATICS
(2021)
Article
Plant Sciences
Megan K. Bartlett, Gabriela Sinclair
Summary: The study found that the physiological traits of wine grape cultivars are closely related to the growing season climate. Cultivars with lower maximum stomatal conductance are associated with regions with higher temperatures and vapor pressure deficits, while those with greater stem embolism resistance and more anisohydric stomatal behavior are associated with cooler regions.
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY
(2021)
Article
Ecology
Isabel Cantera, Celine Jezequel, Tony Dejean, Jerome Murienne, Regis Vigouroux, Alice Valentini, Sebastien Brosse
Summary: The study investigates how deforestation impacts fish communities in French Guiana rivers and streams using environmental DNA metabarcoding. The results show that deforestation alters the functional diversity of freshwater fish communities, affecting the amount, identity, and internal structure of functional traits. Stream fish assemblages experience a reduction in functional redundancy, while river fish faunas experience a decline in functional richness and a loss of species with extreme functions. These findings suggest that deforestation can negatively impact the functioning and stability of neotropical freshwater ecosystems.
ECOLOGICAL PROCESSES
(2023)
Review
Biodiversity Conservation
Andres Felipe Suarez-Castro, Maia Raymundo, Malyon Bimler, Margaret M. Mayfield
Summary: Understanding how ecosystem functioning is influenced by global change requires considering the relationship between species richness and functional diversity at multiple spatial scales. However, most studies focus on single scale analyses and ignore spatial context. This paper emphasizes the need for a spatially explicit, multi-scale framework to better understand this relationship and highlights challenges that could be addressed by integrating approaches from community and landscape ecology.
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Jingguo Sun, Congcong Liu, Jihua Hou, Nianpeng He
Summary: The study investigated stomatal traits of 181 plant species across an environmental gradient on the Loess Plateau. Results showed significant differences in stomatal traits between different grassland types and plant functional groups, with strong correlations with environmental factors.
ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS
(2021)
Article
Agricultural Engineering
Oliver Koerner, Dimitrios Fanourakis, Michael Chung-Rung Hwang, Benita Hyldgaard, Georgios Tsaniklidis, Nikolaos Nikoloudakis, Dorthe Horn Larsen, Carl-Otto Ottosen, Eva Rosenqvist
Summary: The study investigated the effect of cultivar differences in stomatal conductance on energy demand related to relative air humidity. Six experiments were conducted to study evapotranspiration variation in six pot rose cultivars, while adjusting the growth environment to realize different levels of crop ETc. The commonly applied g(s) sub-model in ETc models was validated under greenhouse conditions, showing good agreement between simulated and measured ETc.
BIOSYSTEMS ENGINEERING
(2021)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Pu Yan, Li Xu, Nianpeng He
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Pu Yan, Chunwang Xiao, Li Xu, Guirui Yu, Ang Li, Shilong Piao, Nianpeng He
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2020)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Qiuyue Li, Jihua Hou, Pu Yan, Li Xu, Zhi Chen, Hao Yang, Nianpeng He
Article
Environmental Sciences
Jianming Wang, Yin Wang, Mingxu Li, Li Xu, Nianpeng He, Pu Yan, Chen Chen, Qi Lu, Yiming Feng, Jingwen Li
Summary: The diversity of rare and abundant bacteria in soil is influenced by plant community, climate, soil, and spatial factors, with differences in the impacts of abiotic and biotic factors between the two subcommunities. Rare bacterial richness decreases with temperature, drought, and nutrient limitation, while abundant bacterial richness increases. Plant richness is negatively associated with the abundance of bacteria but positively related to rare bacterial richness. Abiotic and biotic differences have a greater impact on rare bacterial composition than on abundant bacterial composition. Furthermore, spatial patterns of distribution differ notably between abundant and rare bacteria in harsh desert environments.
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
(2021)
Article
Plant Sciences
Congcong Liu, Ying Li, Pu Yan, Nianpeng He
FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE
(2021)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Yao Zhang, Nianpeng He, Mingxu Li, Pu Yan, Guirui Yu
Summary: The trait-based productivity (TBP) framework can explain the spatial variation in grassland productivity, showing some applicability in different grassland transects, especially in environmentally stressful Tibetan plateau. Chlorophyll quantity, regulated by climate or regional limiting factors, plays a dominant role in influencing the spatial variation of grassland productivity compared to chlorophyll efficiency.
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
(2021)
Article
Ecology
Jiahui Zhang, Lars O. Hedin, Mingxu Li, Li Xu, Pu Yan, Guanhua Dai, Nianpeng He
Summary: Although there were significantly negative or positive relationships between leaf N:P ratio and productivity in different ecosystems, leaf N:P ratio hardly predicted productivity in natural ecosystems. The ambiguous relationship between leaf N:P and species dominance reflected a luxury consumption of nitrogen and phosphorus in turnover and structure in natural communities. Climate, soil, and leaf nutrients (rather than N:P) influenced productivity significantly.
Review
Plant Sciences
Nianpeng He, Pu Yan, Congcong Liu, Li Xu, Mingxu Li, Koenraad Van Meerbeek, Guangsheng Zhou, Guoyi Zhou, Shirong Liu, Xuhui Zhou, Shenggong Li, Shuli Niu, Xingguo Han, Thomas N. Buckley, Lawren Sack, Guirui Yu
Summary: With the rapid accumulation of plant trait data, there are major opportunities to integrate these data into predicting ecosystem primary productivity across different spatial extents. However, scaling up to the ecosystem scale has remained challenging. This study demonstrates the need to combine community-level traits and environmental factors to predict ecosystem productivity at landscape or biogeographic scales, and highlights the potential for integrating traits into ecological models to estimate productivity-related ecosystem functions and anticipate the response of terrestrial ecosystems to global change.
TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE
(2023)
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Pu Yan, Marcos Fernandez-Martinez, Koenraad Van Meerbeek, Guirui Yu, Mirco Migliavacca, Nianpeng He
Summary: This study systematically explores the role of different biodiversity attributes, including species richness, phylogenetic and functional diversity, and community-weighted mean (CWM) and ecosystem traits, in the key axes of ecosystem functions. The findings emphasize the critical importance of biodiversity conservation in sustaining terrestrial ecosystem multifunctionality (EMF) and ensuring human well-being.
GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Plant Sciences
Pu Yan, Jiahui Zhang, Nianpeng He, Weikang Zhang, CongCong Liu, Marcos Fernandez-Martinez
Summary: Global changes have affected vegetation photosynthesis, particularly in terms of the gross primary productivity (GPP) which influences the global carbon cycle. This study found that soil nutrients and functional diversity are the main determinants of the magnitude of GPP variability, and climate effects are predominantly mediated by multifaceted diversity.
JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY
(2023)