Article
Plant Sciences
Charles A. Price, Paul Drake, Erik J. Veneklaas, Michael Renton
Summary: The origin of quarter-power scaling patterns has intrigued biologists and various models have been proposed to explain these patterns. However, discrepancies between model predictions and empirical data have hindered widespread acceptance. This study presents a new model that derives quarter-power scaling by preserving volume flow rate and velocity as model constraints. Applying this model to land plants, it predicts nonlinearity in allometric relationships and explains why scaling exponents covary along a fractal continuum. Data from various sources support the model's predictions and provide an alternative to current general models of plant metabolic allometry.
Article
Plant Sciences
Gustavo C. Spanner, Bruno O. Gimenez, Cynthia L. Wright, Valdiek Silva Menezes, Brent D. Newman, Adam D. Collins, Kolby J. Jardine, Robinson I. Negron-Juarez, Adriano Jose Nogueira Lima, Jardel Ramos Rodrigues, Jeffrey Q. Chambers, Niro Higuchi, Jeffrey M. Warren
Summary: This study investigates the dynamics of soil and tree water extraction in an old-growth upland forest in central Amazonia. The results show that the response of trees to reduced precipitation varies by species, and tree water use is proportional to sapwood area. Soil water extraction depends on root biomass, and as the dry season progresses, extraction shifts to deeper levels. These findings are important for understanding the response and water cycle in tropical forests to drought.
FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Agronomy
Susan E. Bush, Jessica S. Guo, Donna Dehn, Kevin C. Grady, Julia B. Hull, Emily Johnson, Dan F. Koepke, Randall W. Long, Dan L. Potts, Kevin R. Hultine
Summary: The study found that the introduced Tamarix populations in North America have largely produced generalist genotypes in terms of drought sensitivity due to hybridization, but some populations may become maladapted sooner to reductions in available water than others in response to rapid changes in ecohydrologic conditions.
AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY
(2021)
Article
Forestry
Kelsey N. Bryant, Brett W. Fredericksen, David M. Rosenthal
Summary: The research reveals a spectrum of hydraulic behaviors among co-existing mature temperate tree species, with some exhibiting isohydric behavior and others anisohydric behavior. Understanding these species-specific strategies is important for predicting how temperate forests may respond to changes in climate, especially water availability.
TREES-STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION
(2022)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Peter J. Bishop, Mark A. Wright, Stephanie E. Pierce
Summary: This study examined the scaling of muscle mass, force-generating capacity, and internal architecture in the fore- and hindlimbs of mammals, reptiles, and bipeds. It was found that patterns observed in individual muscles were consistent with those seen in the whole limb. Reptiles generally have lower muscle mass and force-generating capacity compared to mammals, especially at larger body sizes, while bipeds exhibit strong positive allometry in the distal hindlimb. Interestingly, differences in whole-limb force-generating capacity were primarily driven by variations in muscle mass rather than internal architecture, with a common scaling pattern observed across reptiles, mammals, and bipeds.
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Ken W. Krauss, Catherine E. Lovelock, Luzhen Chen, Uta Berger, Marilyn C. Ball, Ruth Reef, Ronny Peters, Hannah Bowen, Alejandra G. Vovides, Eric J. Ward, Marie-Christin Wimmler, Joel Carr, Pete Bunting, Jamie A. Duberstein
Summary: Blue carbon wetland vegetation, particularly mangroves, has a limited freshwater requirement and consumes less water compared to adjacent terrestrial ecoregions. This reduced water use, combined with other ecosystem services provided by mangroves, allows them to sustain the ecological values of connected estuarine ecosystems without competing with human freshwater needs.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2022)
Article
Forestry
Radek Jupa, Kamila Pokorna
Summary: Bark wounding induces limited embolism spreading. The impacts of bark wounding may not significantly limit water delivery to distal organs and leaf gas exchange.
Article
Plant Sciences
Valentina Butto, Mathilde Millan, Sergio Rossi, Sylvain Delagrange
Summary: The study reveals that different functional tree species exhibit varied responses to soil water availability and extreme drought events, impacting tree growth and productivity. Ring-porous and diffuse-porous species display diverse requirements in terms of environmental conditions and water balance.
FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE
(2021)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Jingjing Sun, Yi Lin
Summary: Allometric scaling studies are important for understanding the morphology, function, and behavior of trees in ecology. This study investigated the allometric relationships between branch lengths in 3D vector mode using a detailed quantitative structure model and 3D point cloud data. The results showed that the scalar and vector relationships between branch lengths and the lengths of cumulative child branches were similar among trees. The relationships between the horizontal and vertical components of branch lengths and the cumulative lengths of child branches differed significantly.
Article
Plant Sciences
Richard L. Peters, Kathy Steppe, Christoforos Pappas, Roman Zweifel, Flurin Babst, Lars Dietrich, Georg von Arx, Rafael Poyatos, Marina Fonti, Patrick Fonti, Charlotte Grossiord, Mana Gharun, Nina Buchmann, David N. Steger, Ansgar Kahmen
Summary: Trees remain hydrated during drought by reducing canopy conductance and closing stomata. The control of canopy conductance is proposed to optimize hydraulic safety against carbon assimilation efficiency. However, the relationship between canopy conductance and stem rehydration remains unclear. This study investigated the species-specific responses of canopy conductance and found that it is weakly related to water potential, but strongly related to stem rehydration. The findings highlight the importance of stem rehydration in water-use regulation in mature trees.
Article
Forestry
Loic D'Orangeville, Malcolm Itter, Dan Kneeshaw, J. William Munger, Andrew D. Richardson, James M. Dyer, David A. Orwig, Yude Pan, Neil Pederson
Summary: Climate models project that hotter droughts will have critical impacts on tree growth and forest dynamics in temperate forests of Eastern North America. Our study highlights the importance of wood porosity as a predictor of species climatic sensitivity to the projected intensification of the drought regime.
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Volker Raffelsbauer, Franz Pucha-Cofrep, Simone Strobl, Johannes Knuesting, Michael Schorsch, Katja Trachte, Renate Scheibe, Achim Braeuning, David Windhorst, Joerg Bendix, Brenner Silva, Erwin Beck
Summary: This study investigates transpiration in a tropical evergreen mountain forest in the Ecuadorian Andes, focusing on nocturnal plant-water relations. It found that despite the humid climate, plants transpired both day and night, with short spells of drought increasing daily transpiration, especially through nighttime transpiration. The study also observed that the extent of diurnal stem circumference fluctuations corresponded with the grouping of tree species based on their water relations.
Article
Ecology
Martyna M. Kotowska, Roman M. Link, Alexander Roell, Dietrich Hertel, Dirk Hoelscher, Pierre-Andre Waite, Gerald Moser, Aiyen Tjoa, Christoph Leuschner, Bernhard Schuldt
Summary: This study examines the relationship between wood anatomy and sap flux density with tree size and wood density, and their combined influence on aboveground biomass increment and daily water use using observational data from Indonesian rainforest tree species. Results show a stronger correlation between wood hydraulic anatomy and plant performance indicators compared to wood density. Additionally, the study reveals that wood hydraulic traits are closely linked to water use and productivity through their influence on sap flow.
FRONTIERS IN FORESTS AND GLOBAL CHANGE
(2021)
Article
Marine & Freshwater Biology
Ronny Peters, Catherine Lovelock, Jorge Lopez-Portillo, Jasper Bathmann, Marie-Christin Wimmler, Jiang Jiang, Marc Walther, Uta Berger
Summary: The study focuses on how mangrove species in the genus Avicennia shed canopy parts when exposed to adverse environmental conditions, and the regulating impact of water balance in the combined plant-soil system.
ESTUARINE COASTAL AND SHELF SCIENCE
(2021)
Article
Forestry
Cameron B. Williams, Rikke Reese Naesborg, Anthony R. Ambrose, Wendy L. Baxter, George W. Koch, Todd E. Dawson
Summary: The research shows that in tall trees, water storage in tree stems decreases with height, possibly due to chronically low water potentials caused by gravity. Stem water storage contributes minimally to transpiration in trees, indicating the presence of hydraulic capacitance and resistance in water transfer processes.
Article
Ecology
Michael J. Schuster, Laura J. Williams, Artur Stefanski, Raimundo Bermudez, Michael Belluau, Christian Messier, Alain Paquette, Dominique Gravel, Peter B. Reich
Summary: Mixing tree species can enhance forest productivity, but the effects of species origin and phylogeny on belowground productivity are not clear. Increasing functional diversity in mixtures can stimulate overyielding of annual production. In North America, mixtures of angiosperms showed overyielding in standing biomass by 16%, while gymnosperm mixtures had no effect. European mixtures had 14% more standing biomass compared to monocultures, while North American mixtures had 10% less.
Article
Ecology
Forest Isbell, Patricia Balvanera, Akira S. Mori, Jin-Sheng He, James M. Bullock, Ganga Ram Regmi, Eric W. Seabloom, Simon Ferrier, Osvaldo E. Sala, Nathaly R. Guerrero-Ramirez, Julia Tavella, Daniel J. Larkin, Bernhard Schmid, Charlotte L. Outhwaite, Pairot Pramual, Elizabeth T. Borer, Michel Loreau, Taiwo Crossby Omotoriogun, David O. Obura, Maggie Anderson, Cristina Portales-Reyes, Kevin Kirkman, Pablo M. Vergara, Adam Thomas Clark, Kimberly J. Komatsu, Owen L. Petchey, Sarah R. Weiskopf, Laura J. Williams, Scott L. Collins, Nico Eisenhauer, Christopher H. Trisos, Delphine Renard, Alexandra J. Wright, Poonam Tripathi, Jane Cowles, Jarrett E. K. Byrnes, Peter B. Reich, Andy Purvis, Zati Sharip, Mary O'Connor, Clare E. Kazanski, Nick M. Haddad, Eulogio H. Soto, Laura E. Dee, Sandra Diaz, Chad R. Zirbel, Meghan L. Avolio, Shaopeng Wang, Zhiyuan Ma, Jingjing Liang, Hanan C. Farah, Justin Andrew Johnson, Brian W. Miller, Yann Hautier, Melinda D. Smith, Johannes M. H. Knops, Bonnie J. E. Myers, Zuzana Harmackova, Jorge Cortes, Michael B. J. Harfoot, Andrew Gonzalez, Tim Newbold, Jacqueline Oehri, Marina Mazon, Cynnamon Dobbs, Meredith S. Palmer
Summary: Despite progress in understanding global biodiversity loss, there are still taxonomic and geographic knowledge gaps. Decision makers often rely on expert judgement, but cannot engage with large and diverse groups of specialists. A survey of biodiversity experts worldwide revealed consensus and differences in perspectives and estimates, with underrepresented groups recommending different conservation priorities and providing higher estimates of biodiversity loss.
FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT
(2023)
Article
Ecology
Ingibjorg S. Jonsdottir, Aud H. Halbritter, Casper T. Christiansen, Inge H. J. Althuizen, Siri Haugum, Jonathan J. Henn, Katrin Bjornsdottir, Brian Salvin Maitner, Yadvinder Malhi, Sean T. Michaletz, Ruben E. Roos, Kari Klanderud, Hanna Lee, Brian J. Enquist, Vigdis Vandvik
Summary: In the high Arctic, plant community species composition responds slowly to climate warming, while the response of community functional traits and the consequences for ecosystem functioning are less understood. This study compared taxonomic and functional community compositional responses to a long-term warming experiment in three major high Arctic habitats. The results showed that while taxonomic compositional changes were observed in all plant communities over time, the responses to experimental warming were minor and most pronounced in the drier habitats.
ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS
(2023)
Article
Environmental Sciences
A. L. Gill, R. M. Grinder, C. R. See, F. S. Chapin, L. C. DeLancey, M. C. Fisk, P. M. Groffman, T. Harms, S. E. Hobbie, J. D. Knoepp, J. M. H. Knops, M. Mack, P. B. Reich, A. D. Keiser
Summary: Autotrophic and heterotrophic organisms require stoichiometrically balanced ratios of C to nutrients, and the availability of soil C influences the competition between autotrophic nitrifiers and heterotrophic decomposers for ammonium, affecting N mineralization and nitrification dynamics. This study used data from the LTER network to examine the impact of soil C concentration on the relationship between net nitrification and net N mineralization. The results showed that soil C availability constrains the fraction of mineralized N that undergoes nitrification, leading to decreased nitrification rates in high C concentration soils.
Article
Ecology
Francois Vasseur, Cyrille Violle, Brian J. J. Enquist, Denis Vile
Summary: The metabolic scaling theory (MST) predicts quasi-universal trait-size relationships in plants, but recent studies have found variability in these relationships and the role of genetic variation and environment is not well understood.
FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY
(2023)
Review
Ecology
Alexander Keller, Markus J. Ankenbrand, Helge Bruelheide, Stefanie Dekeyzer, Brian J. Enquist, Mohammad Bagher Erfanian, Daniel S. Falster, Rachael Gallagher, Jennifer Hammock, Jens Kattge, Sara D. Leonhardt, Joshua S. Madin, Brian Maitner, Margot Neyret, Renske E. Onstein, William D. Pearse, Jorrit H. Poelen, Roberto Salguero-Gomez, Florian D. Schneider, Aniko B. Toth, Caterina Penone
Summary: Traits play a crucial role in ecological and evolutionary sciences, helping researchers understand the function of organisms and their interactions with the environment. However, there are challenges in measuring, compiling, and analyzing trait data. This article provides 10 simple rules as a guide to making critical decisions and promoting good practice in collecting and managing trait data for reuse by the research community.
METHODS IN ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION
(2023)
Article
Ecology
Francois Munoz, Christopher A. Klausmeier, Pierre Gauzere, Gaurav Kandlikar, Elena Litchman, Nicolas Mouquet, Annette Ostling, Wilfried Thuiller, Adam C. Algar, Arnaud Auber, Marc W. Cadotte, Leo Delalandre, Pierre Denelle, Brian J. Enquist, Claire Fortunel, Matthias Grenie, Nicolas Loiseau, Lucie Mahaut, Anthony Maire, David Mouillot, Catalina Pimiento, Cyrille Violle, Nathan J. B. Kraft
Summary: Recent work has demonstrated that evaluating the distinctiveness of functional traits, which is the average trait distance of a species to other species in a community, can provide valuable insights into the dynamics of biodiversity and ecosystem functioning. However, the underlying ecological mechanisms that drive the emergence and persistence of functionally distinct species are not well understood. In this study, we address this issue by considering a heterogeneous fitness landscape, where functional dimensions encompass peaks that represent trait combinations resulting in positive population growth rates in a community. We identify four ecological cases that contribute to the emergence and persistence of functionally distinct species and provide examples and guidelines to distinguish between them. Additionally, we explore how stochastic dispersal limitation can lead to functional distinctiveness. Our framework offers a novel perspective on the relationship between fitness landscape heterogeneity and the functional composition of ecological assemblages.
Article
Ecology
Thore Engel, Helge Bruelheide, Daniela Hoss, Francesco M. Sabatini, Jan Altman, Mohammed A. S. Arfin-Khan, Erwin Bergmeier, Tomas Cerny, Milan Chytry, Matteo Dainese, Juergen Dengler, Jiri Dolezal, Richard Field, Felicia M. Fischer, Dries Huygens, Ute Jandt, Florian Jansen, Anke Jentsch, Dirk N. Karger, Jens Kattge, Jonathan Lenoir, Frederic Lens, Jaqueline Loos, Ulo Niinemets, Gerhard E. Overbeck, Wim A. Ozinga, Josep Penuelas, Gwendolyn Peyre, Oliver Phillips, Peter B. Reich, Christine Roemermann, Brody Sandel, Marco Schmidt, Franziska Schrodt, Eduardo Velez-Martin, Cyrille Violle, Valerio Pillar
Summary: This study evaluates the effects of dominance and niche partitioning on biodiversity-ecosystem functioning (BEF) relationships in grassland systems worldwide. The results indicate that dominance effects, related to the traits of the dominant species, have a significant impact on BEF relationships, while functional diversity (FD) does not affect primary productivity (NDVI).
GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY
(2023)
Article
Plant Sciences
Emma Ladouceur, Forest Isbell, Adam T. Clark, W. Stanley Harpole, Peter B. Reich, G. David Tilman, Jonathan M. Chase
Summary: Human impacts have caused significant biodiversity change, which varies depending on scale. Passive or active ecological restoration is a key method for managing these changes. Recovery of biodiversity following disturbance is often incomplete and influenced by landscape matrix and contingent factors. Inferences about recovery and biodiversity change depend on the temporal and spatial scales of measurement.
JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Plant Sciences
Iris Hordijk, Daniel S. Maynard, Simon P. Hart, Lidong Mo, Hans ter Steege, Jingjing Liang, Sergio de-Miguel, Gert-Jan Nabuurs, Peter B. Reich, Meinrad Abegg, C. Yves Adou Yao, Giorgio Alberti, Angelica M. Almeyda Zambrano, Braulio V. Alvarado, Alvarez-Davila Esteban, Patricia Alvarez-Loayza, Luciana F. Alves, Christian Ammer, Clara Anton-Fernandez, Alejandro Araujo-Murakami, Luzmila Arroyo, Valerio Avitabile, Gerardo A. Aymard C, Timothy Baker, Radomir Balazy, Olaf Banki, Jorcely Barroso, Meredith L. Bastian, Jean-Francois Bastin, Luca Birigazzi, Philippe Birnbaum, Robert Bitariho, Pascal Boeckx, Frans Bongers, Olivier Bouriaud, Pedro H. S. Brancalion, Susanne Brandl, Roel Brienen, Eben N. Broadbent, Helge Bruelheide, Filippo Bussotti, Roberto Cazzolla Gatti, Ricardo G. Cesar, Goran Cesljar, Robin Chazdon, Han Y. H. Chen, Chelsea Chisholm, Emil Cienciala, Connie J. Clark, David B. Clark, Gabriel Colletta, David Coomes, Fernando Cornejo Valverde, Jose J. Corral-Rivas, Philip Crim, Jonathan Cumming, Selvadurai Dayanandan, Andre L. de Gasper, Mathieu Decuyper, Geraldine Derroire, Ben DeVries, Ilija Djordjevic, Amaral Ieda, Aurelie Dourdain, Engone Obiang Nestor Laurier, Brian Enquist, Teresa Eyre, Adande Belarmain Fandohan, Tom M. Fayle, Leandro V. Ferreira, Ted R. Feldpausch, Leena Finer, Markus Fischer, Christine Fletcher, Lorenzo Frizzera, Javier G. P. Gamarra, Damiano Gianelle, Henry B. Glick, David Harris, Andrew Hector, Andrea Hemp, Geerten Hengeveld, Bruno Herault, John Herbohn, Annika Hillers, Euridice N. Honorio Coronado, Cang Hui, Hyunkook Cho, Thomas Ibanez, Il Bin Jung, Nobuo Imai, Andrzej M. Jagodzinski, Bogdan Jaroszewicz, Vivian Johanssen, Carlos A. Joly, Tommaso Jucker, Viktor Karminov, Kuswata Kartawinata, Elizabeth Kearsley, David Kenfack, Deborah Kennard, Sebastian Kepfer-Rojas, Gunnar Keppel, Mohammed Latif Khan, Timothy Killeen, Hyun Seok Kim, Kanehiro Kitayama, Michael Koehl, Henn Korjus, Florian Kraxner, Diana Laarmann, Mait Lang, Simon Lewis, Huicu Lu, Natalia Lukina, Brian Maitner, Yadvinder Malhi, Eric Marcon, Beatriz Schwantes Marimon, Ben Hur Marimon-Junior, Andrew Robert Marshall, Emanuel Martin, Olga Martynenko, Jorge A. Meave, Omar Melo-Cruz, Casimiro Mendoza, Cory Merow, Miscicki Stanislaw, Abel Monteagudo Mendoza, Vanessa Moreno, Sharif A. Mukul, Philip Mundhenk, Maria G. Nava-Miranda, David Neill, Victor Neldner, Radovan Nevenic, Michael Ngugi, Pascal A. Niklaus, Jacek Oleksyn, Petr Ontikov, Edgar Ortiz-Malavasi, Yude Pan, Alain Paquette, Alexander Parada-Gutierrez, Elena Parfenova, Minjee Park, Mar Parren, Narayanaswamy Parthasarathy, Pablo L. Peri, Sebastian Pfautsch, Oliver L. Phillips, Nicolas Picard, Maria Teresa Piedade, Daniel Piotto, Nigel C. A. Pitman, Irina Polo, Lourens Poorter, Axel Dalberg Poulsen, John R. Poulsen, Hans Pretzsch, Freddy Ramirez Arevalo, Zorayda Restrepo-Correa, Mirco Rodeghiero, Samir Rolim, Anand Roopsind, Francesco Rovero, Ervan Rutishauser, Purabi Saikia, Christian Salas-Eljatib, Peter Schall, Dmitry Schepaschenko, Michael Scherer-Lorenzen, Bernhard Schmid, Jochen Schongart, Eric B. Searle, Vladimir Seben, Josep M. Serra-Diaz, Douglas Sheil, Anatoly Shvidenko, Javier Silva-Espejo, Marcos Silveira, James Singh, Plini Sist, Ferry Slik, Bonaventure Sonke, Alexandre F. Souza, Krzysztof Sterenczak, Jens-Christian Svenning, Miroslav Svoboda, Ben Swanepoel, Natalia Targhetta, Nadja Tchebakova, Raquel Thomas, Elen Tikhonova, Peter Umunay, Vladimir Usoltsev, Renato Valencia, Fernando Valladares, Fons van Der Plas, Do Van Tran, Michael E. Van Nuland, Rodolfo Vasquez Martinez, Hans Verbeeck, Helder Viana, Alexander C. Vibrans, Simone Vieira, Klaus von Gadow, Hua-Feng Wang, James Watson, Gijsbert D. A. Werner, Susan K. Wiser, Florian Wittmann, Verginia Wortel, Roderick Zagt, Tomasz Zawila-Niedzwiecki, Chunyu Zhang, Xiuhai Zhao, Mo Zhou, Zhi-Xin Zhu, Irie Casimir Zo-Bi, Thomas W. Crowther
Summary: Biodiversity is important for ecosystems, with higher species richness often leading to increased productivity. However, the relationship between biodiversity and productivity varies across environments and is less pronounced at high levels of species richness. Community evenness can mediate this relationship, and our study shows that it is negatively correlated with species richness and plays a crucial role in the biodiversity-productivity relationship.
JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Plant Sciences
Artur Stefanski, Ethan E. Butler, Raimundo Bermudez, Rebecca A. Montgomery, Peter B. Reich
Summary: The linkage between stomatal behavior and photosynthesis is crucial for understanding the water and carbon cycles under global change. The study found that both warming and reduced rainfall lead to more conservative stomatal behavior in plants, resulting in less water loss per unit carbon gain.
PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT
(2023)
Letter
Ecology
Cory Merow, Brad Boyle, Brian J. J. Enquist, Xiao Feng, Jamie M. M. Kass, Brian S. S. Maitner, Brian McGill, Hannah Owens, Daniel S. S. Park, Andrea Paz, Gonzalo E. E. Pinilla-Buitrago, Mark C. C. Urban, Sara Varela, Adam M. M. Wilson
NATURE ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION
(2023)
Article
Ecology
Cory Merow, Josep M. Serra-Diaz, Brian J. Enquist, Adam M. Wilson
Summary: Chatbots powered by AI, like ChatGPT, can speed up tedious coding tasks and teach new skills. We illustrate the advantages and limitations of using generative AI for scientific coding with examples and argue that debugging can give you a head start on more challenging tasks.
NATURE ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION
(2023)
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Rachael V. Gallagher, Stuart P. Allen, Rafael Govaerts, Malin C. Rivers, Andrew P. Allen, David A. Keith, Cory Merow, Brian Maitner, Nathalie Butt, Tony D. Auld, Brian J. Enquist, Wolf L. Eiserhardt, Ian J. Wright, Jonathon C. O. Mifsud, Sylvia Espinosa-Ruiz, Hugh Possingham, Vanessa M. Adams
Summary: Systematic approaches to conservation assessment are needed to protect plant diversity. However, the completion of threat assessments for endemic plants is weakly related to a country's wealth or the level of threat that species face. The lack of assessment limits national regulation of actions that endanger plant species.
PLANTS PEOPLE PLANET
(2023)
Article
Ecology
Johanna Andrea Martinez-Villa, Sandra M. Duran, Brian J. Enquist, Alvaro Duque, Christian Messier, Alain Paquette
Summary: This study investigated whether Andean forests are changing their functional composition over time along an elevational gradient. The results showed that with increased temperature and vapour-pressure deficit, there were decreases in mean values for leaf area and specific leaf area, and increases in leaf thickness and leaf dry matter content. These changes mainly occurred at higher elevations.
GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY
(2023)