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📣Call for Proposals!📣 🔋Our cross-journal special feature "Energy trade-offs under changing environments" is open to proposals! 💡Aim: To understand essential energy processes in the context of environmental change 👉Find out more: buff.ly/gvMdp1C Journal of Animal Ecology

🍃New study emphasises why it’s important to pay attention to intraspecific trait variation in order to characterise plant strategies and predict plant performance👇 buff.ly/MpjDYAB #functionalecology #forests

🌳A new comprehensive summary of current knowledge on savanna tree root traits and their functions, proposing a framework to study trait variation across environmental and disturbance gradients👇#savannas #treeresearch #grassland buff.ly/b7RyDMz

🍃The leaf δ15N value serves as an indicator of plant-available nitrogen, and this latest research reveals that the mycorrhizal status of dominant plants significantly influences the availability of nitrogen to plants!👇#plantecology buff.ly/MsCI1Gf

🌱Are the traits of seeds & seedlings linked? Evidence from multiple dryland species points to strong coordination in some cases, but not others. This could suggest complex, multidimensional variation in the recruitment strategies of co-occurring species👇 buff.ly/JPvHPIU

🍂This new study is the first to investigate how various leaf biomechanical traits can affect leaf-litter decomposition trajectories, advancing our understanding of how litter decomposability is controlled by leaf functional traits👇#functionaltraits buff.ly/1yjSmto

🌱New study reveals that functional traits e.g. wood density & leaf mass fraction shape plant growth rates, with these relationships changing as plants mature. Growth isn't a fixed trait–it evolves with age!👇 🔍 Article: buff.ly/f0vnEFV 🗞️ Blog: buff.ly/nY1TorB

🐛This new study nuances the classic view of parasitoids as agents of indirect defence, showing that their positive effect on plant fitness occurs only at high plant densities, where neighbouring plants are attacked by unparasitized herbivores👇 buff.ly/WgvSafW

🌍🔥Climate change is reshaping Arctic tundra ecosystems, with increasing fire frequency being a factor. New research highlights potential transitions & alternative ecosystem states and their implications 🔍 Article: buff.ly/DsVgOiH 🗞️ Blog: buff.ly/nK6qVOX

🌲How conifers & angiosperms coexist is an enduring question. In this new study, researchers use a novel method to answer it in terms of their regeneration niches. The niches were found to be remarkably similar! Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research Department of Conservation 👇 buff.ly/jAal7Da

🍄🌱This new study from Sumatra, Indonesia reveals that land-use changes disrupt plant-fungal network connectivity! #Conservation #PlantScience #FungalEcology Uni Göttingen IPB Carina Moura Nathaly Guerrero Ramírez👇 buff.ly/jp7V69X

🌿 Shaded habitats created by the flourishing of angiosperms drives the acceleration of fern diversification as a result of the successful colonisation of shaded moist habitats in angiosperm dominated forests 🔍 Article: buff.ly/zIaGzOX 🗞️ Blog: buff.ly/zg7cTMY

🪿Goose grazing in an Arctic wetland alters the chemical root traits of a dominant sedge species. These changes to root chemistry lead to greater carbon emissions during decomposition👇#wetland #grazing buff.ly/BiGHa5f

🌳Legacy effects (phylogeny & species) & environmental factors directly explain 23.4–70.7% and 3.9–17.7% of the variation in root elemental composition, stoichiometry, and biogeochemical niche, respectively, supporting the biogeochemical niche hypothesis👇 buff.ly/uPyqyy4

🚨Our latest special feature is open to proposals until the 29th June! 💡This feature aims to highlight recent technological advances that address some of the challenges unique to sampling rare species using eDNA 👉Find out more and submit a proposal: buff.ly/k3hxZ3H

💧Water regime is the primary factor driving the establishment of woody plant seedlings in freshwater marshes. As seedlings mature, nitrogen addition can stimulate their growth, enhancing their ability to encroach upon freshwater marshes👇 buff.ly/cYKQCpv

🦠Research reveals that nitrogen deposition decouples grassland plant community from soil bacterial & fungal communities, posing great challenges for an accurate evaluation of ecosystem functions under future global change scenarios 👇chunchang zai buff.ly/KJ75KnS

🌳Novel research reveals that, the non-random, trait-based tree species loss exerted distinct & far-reaching effects on shaping the diversity, community composition & interaction potential of soil fungal communities compared with the random species loss👇 buff.ly/WgrXjW8

🌱Plant community dominance drove plant-soil feedback (PSF) among Medicago sativa cultivars, which was uncorrelated with PSF across other species due to differing responses to various soil microbes👇Jon Bennett USask PlantSci USask AgBio NSERC / CRSNG buff.ly/1dDZaGN

🌿Soil heterogeneity doesn't always promote alien over native plants. When testing the effects of native species on alien species, it's important to consider the naturalization success of the native species👇 🔍 Article: buff.ly/tEBGAJ0 🗞️ Blog: buff.ly/8wjr8Sk