A new study in the Journal of Applied Ecology reveals the importance of introducing symbiotic fungi with native plant species for restoring post-mining ecosystems.
Despite increasing efforts towards habitat and species protection in Europe since the 1990s, when the Fauna-Flora-Habitat directive was adopted, the proportion of threatened plant species has steadily increased. One...
The decomposability of fine roots and their potential to contribute to soil carbon (C) is partly regulated by their tissue chemical composition. In a recent Editor’s Choice article published in AoB PLANTS, Suseela et al...
Global warming accelerates plant water use, increasing plant susceptibility to drought death. From this, it can be hypothesised that higher CO2 concentrations slow plant water use, and should offset the warming effects...
The environmental and biotic context within which plants grow have a great potential to modify responses to climatic changes, yet few studies have addressed both the direct effects of climate and the modulating roles...
Forecasting the effects of climate change on nitrogen (N) cycling in pastures requires an understanding of changes in tissue N. A new study published in AoB PLANTS by Volder et al. shows that elevated CO2, climate...
Phenology is one of most sensitive traits of plants in response to regional climate warming and it may interact with other environmental change factors such as increasing nitrogen deposition. Xia and Wan conduct a 4...
Nitrogen and water effects on functional traits Changes in resource supply can have significant effects on plant functional traits. Ren et al. conduct a field study to examine the responses of five herbaceous perennial...
Plant resource-use strategies and phenotypic plasticity In subalpine grasslands, where a large diversity of habitats can occur over short distances, differing resource-use strategies will determine which species...