【🎉Latest accepted article】
Silicon versus carbon mediates defensive strategies of two dominant congeneric trees across subtropical forest elevations

#Carbon_basedDefense | #Silicon_basedDefense | #SubtropicalDominantTrees | #PlantFunctionalTraits | #Non_structuralCarbohydrate

https://doi.org/10.1093/jpe/rtag060

The growth of #RhododendronAureum and its precipitation sensitivity are more influenced by #Elevation, co-regulated by #SoilProperties and plant size traits in alpine tundra; Soil conditions and leaf economic traits influence temperature sensitivity.

#ClimateChange | #DwarfEvergreenShrubs | #ClimateSensitivity | #PlantFunctionalTraits

https://doi.org/10.1093/jpe/rtaf181

【🎉Latest accepted article】
Functional traits explain the enhancement of #Denitrification by wetland plants

#EcosystemFunctioning | #EcologicalProcessesAndPathways | #PlantFunctionalTraits | #Plant_soilInteractions | #StructuralEquationModel (SEM) | #Trait_basedApproaches

@mcgillu

https://doi.org/10.1093/jpe/rtag023

Moderate disturbance enhances functional and phylogenetic #Diversity, promoting ecosystem resilience through greater niche and evolutionary space. But excessive disturbance leads to homogenization and instability in #Wetlands.

#DisturbanceIntensity | #SoilPhysicochemicalProperties | #PlantFunctionalTraits

https://doi.org/10.1093/jpe/rtaf142

【💡Editor's Choice】
Fandong Meng et al. demonstrates widespread trade-offs between growing season length and plant growth across multiple spatial scales on the #Qinghai_TibetanPlateau.

#LeafEconomicSpectrum | #PlantFunctionalTraits | #Phenology | #CommonGarden

https://doi.org/10.1093/jpe/rtaf061

Gianalberto Losapio et al. addressed the effects of #GlacierRetreat on plant functional diversity by integrating plant traits with ecological indicator values across a 140-year chronosequence in a subalpine glacier landscape.

#AlpineEcosystems | #BiodiversityChange | #ClimateChange | #CommunityDynamics | #GlobalWarming | #LandoltValues | #PlantFunctionalTraits

https://doi.org/10.1093/jpe/rtaf110

💡 Ecological indicators predict functional diversity dynamics following #GlacierRetreat

Results:
Glacier retreat ➡️ Functional richness & functional dispersion ⬇️, functional evenness & functional divergence ⬆️

#AlpineEcosystems | #BiodiversityChange | #ClimateChange | #CommunityDynamics | #GlobalWarming | #LandoltValues | #PlantFunctionalTraits

https://doi.org/10.1093/jpe/rtaf110

【🎉Latest accepted article】
Grassland plant species with slow-growing strategy are more resistant to extreme drought

#EcosystemStability | #PlantFunctionalTraits | #Resistance | #SemiaridGrasslandLeafEconomicSpectrum

https://doi.org/10.1093/jpe/rtaf192

【🎉Latest accepted article】
#Elevation gradient modulates the effects of herbaceous encroachment on the long-term growth trends and #ClimateSensitivity of Rhododendron aureum in alpine tun

#ClimateChange | #DwarfEvergreenShrubs | #SoilProperties | #PlantFunctionalTraits

https://doi.org/10.1093/jpe/rtaf181

Fandong Meng et al. explored the physiological effect of changes in growing season length through #CommonGarden experiments on the #Qinghai−TibetanPlateau.

#LeafEconomicSpectrum | #PlantFunctionalTraits | #Phenology

https://doi.org/10.1093/jpe/rtaf061