Aims Although belowground organs are important contributors to carbon and nutrient cycling, reliably estimating their decomposability remains challenging, partly due to methodological barriers and det...

We examined how functional traits determine population temporal stability in 178 populations of winter annuals across Mediterranean, semi-arid and arid climates over 13 years. Traits conferring highe....

Effects of topography on the composition of trees and seedlings have been demonstrated in many tropical forests. Less attention has been paid to interannual changes in seedling establishment as a pote...

In this study, we experimentally show that stochasticity can play prominent roles in driving local species assembly in annual plant-dominated communities of semiarid gypsum ecosystems. Drylands are t....

Aim Identifying the drivers of ecological stability is critical for ensuring the maintenance of ecosystem functioning and services, particularly in a changing world. Different ecological mechanisms ...

We introduce ReSurveyEurope – a new data source of 79,190 resurveyed vegetation plots in Europe, compiled by a collaborative network of vegetation scientists. We describe the scope of this initiative...

Plant community functional and taxonomic components determine grasslands resistance and recovery under moderate-to-extreme drought. This points to the importance of designing landscapes with both ext...