🌾The Functional traits in primary producers: recent advances and future directions special feature is open for proposals!🍄 🌲Proposal submissions close 15 September, more details here: https://t.co/BELpJc08LM

🪵 Bark and wood traits shape deadwood invertebrates differently. Bark traits drives invertebrate diversity only in fine wood in early stage, whereas wood trait effects are longer-lasting, but restricted to coarse wood🌳 🖥️ Find out more: https://t.co/0LZ5wJ3pkp

🌱 Our study elucidated the intricate interplay between AMF sub-communities and the root economics space (RES) in response to soil fertility gradients, with direct implications for plant productivity🍃 📖 Find the article: https://t.co/nqeRRr6J2m

🌵Across 9,158 site-level observations, climate modulates leaf trait trade-offs: C4 plants, forbs, and annuals use acquisitive strategies; temperate species use conservative ones. Global axes of grass trait coordination emerge🌡️ 🔎 Read the full article: https://t.co/jUjWVeMx8L

📖The requirements for declaring causal interpretations from non-experimental studies have been obscure and restrictive. This paper illustrates how mechanistic causal knowledge can be summarized and used to support causal interpretations🧪 Find out more: https://t.co/uBVvDYDzRh

🍃 Functional traits best predict tree growth when age and leaf habit are considered–growth relationships shift over time and between deciduous and evergreen species. Common garden experiments clarify earlier inconsistencies🌿 @MeganeDeziel 🔎Read more: https://t.co/PIblIM8adz

🔥 A new study shows a higher vulnerability of a fire-adapted subshrub to climate change in anthropogenic Mediterranean habitats, emphasising the need for more demographic studies in human-modified habitats🌊 📖 : https://t.co/NP1dauAgkZ

🌳 How do Fabaceae plants allocate nutrients above vs. belowground across China? We found divergent leaf–root nutrient allometries and a dominant role of phylogeny in nutrient variation, except for leaf P & K, which were driven by climate! 🌞 Read here: https://t.co/wDFCHIU863

⭐ A huge congratulations to Ilaria Dentamare, winner of the Journal of Ecology Best Poster Award at the XXXIV National Congress of the Italian Ecological Society! 🏆

🍃 Number of leaves explained vital rates best and most homogeneously across 55 populations of Plantago lanceolata across three continents in a size metric selection at large scale 🌿 📖 Read the full article: https://t.co/wDFCHIU863

🪵 Diameter drives short-term biomass gains, but long-term carbon storage hinges on wood density, especially in humid forests. To improve accuracy, biomass models should account for radial wood density variation and climate ☁️ 🔎 Find out more: https://t.co/HtJk1Vn7SC

🌲 Eastern Hemlock is a tree native to eastern North America. Sadly, it is susceptible to an insect from Japan, the Hemlock Woolly Adelgid. Warmer winters allow the insect to survive so the outlook for this tree is poor🐛 📖Read the full article here: https://t.co/uRRAAesFZB

🌞 A large-scale experiment identified a coupled effect between warming magnitude and background climate, highlighting the interactive effects of climate warming and background temperature in regulating leaf-out🍃 Find out more: https://t.co/ONQ8GeaDqn

🌿 CSR strategies reflect species' habitat preferences for stress and disturbance, as well as whole-plant traits, offering support for Grime’s hypothesis and highlighting its significance to understanding plant adaptation in the Anthropocene🌲 Read here: https://t.co/Ql431RIxEu

🧪 Soil acidification slashes plant carbon to soil by 13-60%! Plants shift strategy: boost root growth, storage & respiration to survive stress. Less carbon enters soil, but SOC stays stable due to lower decomposition #SoilScience 🌳 Read more: https://t.co/dxWEoPKwb2

🐛 We used a spatially explicit network of 113 plots in a subtropical coniferous forest to evaluate the variation and controls of decomposition at a scale where macroclimate, dominant vegetation, and litter quality are kept constant 🍃 Read more: https://t.co/LaYC2Dclgl

🔎 We conducted a global meta-analysis of 3,135 data comparisons from 296 papers to quantify the effects of removing plant consumers on plant biomass, diversity, reproduction, and survival.🌵 📖 Read the full study here: https://t.co/YEj2qmxwiY

🌳 Tree and understory herb diversity both boost ecosystem multifunctionality (EMF) across spatial scales in temperate forests. Our study highlights the overlooked role of forest understories in sustaining key ecosystem services 🌲 📖 Read it here: https://t.co/Ik7jnX62Vi

🌞 Heatwaves reduce grassland carbon uptake, but mowing can ease the impact. Dominant species traits—not just biodiversity—play a key role in resilience. Managing for strong species may help grasslands weather climate extremes. @USCCC 🌱 📖 Read more: https://t.co/WEQmNy4FCI

🔥 These findings support the idea that fire can alter the phenotype of individual plants, potentially through epigenetic mechanisms, and suggest that these changes may affect plant-animal interactions🌺 🔎 Find out more: https://t.co/rMchWVJ9NY

🐝 Study in an alpine meadow from a global biodiversity hotspot indicates sugar concentration of floral nectar contributes to structuring bee-flower interactions, which is mediated by length of bumblebees’ proboscis and flower depth 🌸 Read more: https://t.co/uH9xC85N3e