Sarah Sapsford discusses her recent article: Slow soil enzyme recovery following invasive tree removal linked to bacterial and fungal communities. 🌲 The tree invasion problem Pine trees have been planted around the world for their fast growing and useful timber. But sometimes these trees can become highly invasive – and when they do, they may change…
Vítek Latzel and colleagues discuss their latest research, published in the Journal of Ecology: Phenotypic diversity generated by a transposable element increases productivity and resistance to competitors in plant populations. Read on to find out more about the role of transposons in biodiversity and resilience: The last decades of biodiversity-ecosystem functioning experiments have attempted to…
Greta la Bella discusses her recent article: Drivers of plant community (in)stability along a sea-inland gradient. Read on to find out about the species ecological characteristics that promote the stability of coastal dune ecosystems: ————————————————————————————————————————————– ❓ What is stability? Global change pressures are threatening the stability of natural ecosystems worldwide, i.e. an ecosystem’s ability to…
In this video, Magda Garbowski summarises their recent article: Nutrient enrichment alters seasonal beta-diversity in global grasslands: 📽️ Transcript: Plant communities are constantly changing, sometimes even with in a single growing season. For example, some species may grow in the spring, whereas others may dominate in the fall. This temporal niche partitioning allows plants to use…
Mudrák Ondrej discusses his recent article: Ecological significance of standing dead phytomass: Marcescence as a puzzle piece to the nutrient cycle in temperate ecosystems. ❄️ Why do some plants retain their dead tissues and others don’t? As the winter approaches and the first freezing temperatures sweep across temperate climates, plants become dormant and shed their leaves.…
Feike Dijkstra discusses his recent article: Continuous remobilization from belowground provides more than half of all carbon and nitrogen in regrowing shoots after grassland defoliation. Find out more about how C and N remobilization have important consequences for how grasslands respond to grazing intensity and global change factors: 🌱 What we found When aboveground tissue is…
Runa Magnusson discusses her recent article: Spatiotemporal variability in precipitation-growth relations of Betula nana in the Siberian lowland tundra. Warming, greening, thawing – The Arctic is a place of rapid warming and environmental change, with temperatures increasing three to four times faster than the global average. Impacts on Arctic ecosystems and communities include, among many…
The cover image for our June issue shows a ‘deeper look’ into species-rich mountain grassland in the Krkonoše Mountains, Czech Republic. This image relates to the article ‘Plant–soil feedbacks in a diverse grassland: Soil remembers, but not too much‘, by Eliška Kuťáková et al. Here, Eliška tells us the story behind the image: Being a plant ecologist,…
Mario Moura discusses his recent article: Pervasive impacts of climate change on the woodiness and ecological generalism of dry forest plant assemblages. Find out more about the importance of long-term conservation planning for maintaining tropical dry forests. The climate crisis is already a reality for many ecosystems on Earth. Among those ecosystems facing significant challenges…
Natalie Oram and Johannes Ingrisch discuss their recent article: Drought intensity alters productivity, carbon allocation and plant nitrogen uptake in fast versus slow grassland communities. Find out more about how drought intensity affects plant productivity, and plant–soil carbon and nitrogen cycling. We have become so accustomed to hearing the sentence ‘drought events are becoming more…
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