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Learn about root traits in Czech Republic this September with the Go Belowground course. Applications due in May.

🧪🌏🌾 #trait #ecology #roots #PlantFunctionalTraits #botany #ecr
January 6, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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Forum 📜: Rethinking community-weighted means: why geometric averages matter

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#CommunityWeightedMean #GeometricMean #LogNormalDistribution #PlantFunctionalTraits #TraitBasedEcology #TraitEnvironmentRelationship

March 5, 2026 at 5:05 PM
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#EcologyInTheAndes 1st day of our last 2024 #field activity: collecting #PlantFunctionalTraits for high-#Andean #wetland plants in #Ayacucho (#Peru) at 4400m elevation. We were welcomed by amazing #landscapes but lot's of rain and hail the rest of the day 1/3

#Peru_BMAP #Biodiversity #Monitoring
November 24, 2024 at 2:22 AM
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I am so looking forward to this! #seeds #plantfunctionaltraits #mountains 🧪🏔️🌐🌾🍃👩‍🔬
February 13, 2025 at 1:17 PM
jpecol.bsky.social
【🎉Latest accepted article】
Community functional traits shift under long-term nitrogen addition: Roles of #IntraspecificTraitVariability and #SpeciesTurnover

#PlantFunctionalTraits | #NitrogenDeposition | #AlpineMeadow

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May 23, 2026 at 6:25 PM
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📢 ITV-net: the first Italian database on #PlantFunctionalTraits with #IntraspecificTraitVariability 🌱

ITV-net includes over 8,500 leaf trait records (LA/SLA) for 709 plant species across 8 Italian habitats, from coastal dunes to alpine grasslands.

#EnviXLab

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ITV-net: a dataset of intraspecific leaf traits data across major Italian habitats
Over the last decades plant ecology has greatly benefited from open data on functional traits. Nowadays, several national and international trait databases are available, but trait data from Southe...
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July 28, 2025 at 10:24 AM
jpecol.bsky.social
【🎉Latest accepted article】
Ecological indicators predict functional diversity dynamics following #GlacierRetreat

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

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Ecological indicators predict functional diversity dynamics following glacier retreat
Abstract. The retreat of glaciers due to climate change is reshaping mountain landscapes and biodiversity. While previous research has documented vegetatio
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August 2, 2025 at 2:13 PM
jpecol.bsky.social
【🎉Latest accepted article】
Silicon versus carbon mediates defensive strategies of two dominant congeneric trees across subtropical forest elevations

#Carbon_basedDefense | #Silicon_basedDefense | #SubtropicalDominantTrees | #PlantFunctionalTraits

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Silicon versus carbon mediates defensive strategies of two dominant congeneric trees across subtropical forest elevations
How subtropical trees modulate leaf Si- and C-based defenses across elevations is poorly understood. Comparing traits of two Castanopsis species revealed t
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April 2, 2026 at 4:01 PM
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Su, Y., Zhang, WP., Zhao, JH. et al. Cultivar mixtures increase stability and productivity over time through asynchrony and complementarity. Agron. Sustain. Dev. 45, 20 (2025).
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#IntraspecificDiversity #PlantFunctionalTraits
Cultivar mixtures increase stability and productivity over time through asynchrony and complementarity - Agronomy for Sustainable Development
Crop cultivar mixtures commonly increase productivity in the short term and stabilize or enhance productivity in the long term. However, these effects can be highly variable, likely due to limited res...
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November 27, 2025 at 2:43 PM
jpecol.bsky.social
【💡High Cited 2020-2022 】
Contrasting responses of native and #AlienPlantSpecies to soil properties shed new light on the invasion of #DuneSystems

🔗Core:
the interplay between #SoilNutrients, soil salinity and #PlantFunctionalTraits

#PlantCommunities

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Location of the study area in the lagoon of Marano and Grado in the northern Adriatic Sea (a), the barrier islands and 10 sampling areas (b) and an example of 10 points distribution inside each sampling area (San Andrea island) (c). Effects of soil conductivity (a–c), organic carbon content in soil (d–f) and nitrogen content in soil (g–i) on standardized species cover (abundance) between status (native = solid line, alien = dashed line) and within habitats (vertical columns).
July 6, 2025 at 3:45 PM
jpecol.bsky.social
【🎉Latest accepted article】
Decoupling of whole-plant economic strategy from population performance in the invasive Solidago canadensis along geographic gradients in China

#InvasiveEcology | #PlantFunctionalTraits | #EconomicsSpectrum

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July 19, 2026 at 3:05 PM
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Xiao-Hua Yang et al. examined the relationship between the #Resistance of plants to extreme drought and the ‘slow-fast’ #EconomicSpectrum across 13 species in a temperate steppe.

#EcosystemStability | #PlantFunctionalTraits | #SemiaridGrasslandLeafEconomicSpectrum

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Biplot showing the correlation among the functional traits (LDMC, leaf dry matter content; LMA, leaf mass per area; LCC, leaf carbon content; LNC, leaf nitrogen content; LPC, leaf phosphorous content) and the first two axes of the PCA. The first two explained 67.87% of total variance.
July 18, 2026 at 3:05 PM
jpecol.bsky.social
【🎉Latest accepted article】
#Warming-induced C4 expansion is better explained by water and nitrogen than by photosynthesis

#ClimateWarming | #DesertSteppe | #C3AndC4Species | #PlantFunctionalTraits | #SoilPhysicalAndChemicalProperties

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June 25, 2026 at 2:02 PM
jpecol.bsky.social
【🎉Latest accepted article】
The Associations between #WinterBud Traits and the Whole Plant Economics Spectrum: Evidence from the Common Woody Species in #SubtropicalForests

#ColdResistance | #PlantFunctionalTraits | #LeafEconomicTraits

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May 24, 2026 at 6:44 PM
jpecol.bsky.social
【🎉Latest accepted article】
Divergent regulation of seed mass on roots and leaves in legume plants

#SeedSize | #FineRoot | #PlantFunctionalTraits | #LeafTraits | #HerbaceousLegumeSpecies

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May 23, 2026 at 6:09 PM
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Yuhan Zou et al. demonstrates that #DisturbanceIntensity is a key driver of ecological restructuring in #Wetland ecosystems.

#SoilPhysicochemicalProperties | #Diversity | #PlantFunctionalTraits

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May 14, 2026 at 3:56 PM
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【🎉Latest accepted article】
Functional traits explain the enhancement of #Denitrification by wetland plants

#EcosystemFunctioning | #EcologicalProcessesAndPathways | #PlantFunctionalTraits | #StructuralEquationModel

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Functional traits explain the enhancement of denitrification by wetland plants
Plant functional traits affect the extent to which denitrification is enhanced by wetland plants through both direct and indirect pathways. Through constru
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March 10, 2026 at 3:36 PM
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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 | #PlantFunctionalTraits

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Phylogenetic trees of vascular plant communities under different disturbance intensities.
March 1, 2026 at 3:46 PM
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【🎉Latest accepted article】
Grassland plant species with slow-growing strategy are more resistant to extreme drought

#EcosystemStability #PlantFunctionalTraits #Resistance #SemiaridGrasslandLeafEconomicSpectrum

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Grassland plant species with slow-growing strategy are more resistant to extreme drought
Abstract. The frequency and intensity of extreme droughts are increasing and are predicted to be more severe in the coming decades. Clarifying the reasons
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December 1, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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Fandong Meng et al. explored the physiological effect of changes in growing season length through #CommonGarden experiments on the #Qinghai−TibetanPlateau.

#LeafEconomicSpectrum | #PlantFunctionalTraits | #Phenology

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Model evidence of trade-off between growing season length and vegetation growth.
October 27, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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【🎉Latest accepted article】
Disturbance-driven variation in soil characteristics, #PlantFunctionalTraits, and biodiversity in #Wetlands

#DisturbanceIntensity | #SoilPhysicochemicalProperties | #Diversity

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Disturbance-driven variation in soil characteristics, plant functional traits, and biodiversity in wetlands
Abstract. Wetlands are ecologically critical ecosystems increasingly impacted by anthropogenic disturbances. Understanding how disturbance shapes plant com
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October 20, 2025 at 7:31 PM
jpecol.bsky.social
🔎 Growing season length ♾️【Trade-off】♾️ herbaceous growth

Reason:
Growing season length⬆️, photosynthetic efficiency⬇️

#LeafEconomicSpectrum | #PlantFunctionalTraits | #Phenology | #CommonGarden | #TibetanPlateau

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Experimental evidence of trade-off between growing season length and plant growth.
August 14, 2025 at 3:32 PM
jpecol.bsky.social
【🎉Latest accepted article】
#PlantFunctionalTraits and community characteristics jointly shape soil carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus storage in passively restored wetlands following agricultural abandonment

#FreshwaterWetlands #NaturalRestoration

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Plant functional traits and community characteristics jointly shape soil carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus storage in passively restored wetlands following agricultural abandonment
Abstract. Wetland reclamation disrupts original biogeomorphic processes, making passive restoration after agricultural abandonment a key near‒natural solut
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July 17, 2025 at 3:59 PM
jpecol.bsky.social
【EDITOR'S CHOICE】
Comparison of pretreatment, preservation and determination methods for foliar pH of plant samples

#Green/senescedLeaf | #PlantFunctionalTraits | #SamplePreservation | #Specification/standard/protocol | #LeafWaterRatio | #Transformation/conversionEquation

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Relationship between preserved-leaf pH (a–c) and fresh-leaf pH.
June 24, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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【EDITOR'S CHOICE】
Grazing effects on the relationship between #PlantFunctionalDiversity and #SoilCarbonSequestration regulated by livestock species

#GrasslandEcosystem | #GrazingManagement | #PlantFunctionalTraits

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June 9, 2025 at 3:08 AM