Predicting native plant responses to Japanese knotweed invasion
Can plant functional traits help to predict responses to Reynoutria japonica invasion in riparian and fallow ecosystems in southern Poland?
Tag: plant traits
Under pressure: How do plants strike a balance between growth and defense?
A novel modelling approach explores how resource availability, competition pressure and insect herbivore pressure drive selection.
As above, so below? Comparing above- and below-ground functional traits
Root systems face different pressures and economies than do leaves.
Bacteria living within plants can change them in unpredictable ways
Endophytic bacteria, microbes living in plant tissue, can change how a plant grows. But experiments with microbe communities shows that it’s not in a predictable way.
The Hidden Value of Bud Banks
A Bud Bank is not just a Seed Bank in a different form. It can affect populations of plants in a considerably different way.
Traits control the digestibility-decomposition relationship
Fibre concentration and dry matter content can be considered as good predictors of both digestibility and decomposability.
Population-level plasticity drives plant trait variation along elevation
Plant functional types in Earth system models – application of dynamic vegetation models in high-latitude ecosystems
A review of the origins of the plant functional type concept also addresses the current state of models that use PFTs in northern high-latitude ecosystems.
