Community-level stability includes temporal and spatial dimensions, but most studies focus only on the temporal dimension. Bai et al. shows why the two dimensions need to be studied independently and how nitrogen affects them.

How do fire and flooding influence plant diversity in 🌳🌳🌳tree communities along a 🌊📉flood gradient with varying 🔥fire histories? To find out more, read the new paper by de Almeida Souza et al.

The massive ashfall during the eruption of the Tajogaite volcano in Spain suddenly dysfunctionalized the seed bank as a reservoir of recruitment, with profound consequences for plant community dynamics. Read a paper by Medina et al. for more info!

Plant-soil feedback does not contribute to the competitive outcome between invasive and resident native species in a species-rich grassland. Check out this new paper by Fenesi et al. in our Special Issue on Biological Invasions in Plant Communities!.

The competitor, stress-tolerator, ruderal (CSR) concept is a prominent plant functional strategy scheme, but does the plant CSR strategy correlate with leaf phytochemistry? Check out this case study on alpine plants by Onipchenko et al.!.

Special Issue on Island Plant Communities: Revisiting a small Mediterranean island: How vegetation has changes in the last 15 years. Check out a case study set in Pianosa, Tuscan archipelago, by Siccardi et al.

Is biocrust community structure predicted by vascular plant species? Which vascular plant traits influence biocrust community structure? Find out more in the new paper by Bustos et al.!.

Increasing ⬆️temperatures,🌞 drought, grazing cessation and nitrogen deposition amount to tough times for vulnerable dry grasslands. A three-decade long case study in Germany by Horka et al. gives us more insights on the changes these communities face.

From disturbance to recovery: Unveiling the role of goats and ecological drivers on vegetation dynamics of Trindade Island, South Atlantic, Brazil. -A new paper by Zuñe et al.

❓How have Nardus grasslands in Germany 🇩🇪changed in recent decades? Is eutrophication driven by a recovery of soil pH after acidification? Check out a new paper by Peppler-Lisbach et al. to gain an insight into these questions!.

Special Issue on Island Plant Communities: Neotropical maritime inselbergs show a distinct flora from continental inselbergs due to their geographic isolation and climatic factors. A new contribution by Sabino et al.

Spatial scale terms can blur actual study size in plant community ecology publications. A new contribution by Hung et al.:

Allerton et al. assessed the short- and long-term impacts of fire in Caribbean tropical dry forests with limited burn history to determine their resilience and identify functional traits predicting postfire resprouting strategies.

Contrasting patterns of α-diversity but similar patterns of β-diversity between woody and herbaceous vegetation across a tropical rainfall gradient in Mudumalai National Park, India. A new paper by Radhamoni et al.

Propagule pressure and soil disturbance  undermine the ability of plant communities to resist non-native plant invasions. An experimental study by Murillo & Wagner across three habitat types in central Canada. #jvs.special.Issue, #BiologicalInvasions.

Successful 👽alien plant species exhibit functional dissimilarity from natives under varied climatic conditions ☀️🌤️🌦️🌧️⛈️but not under increased nutrient availability. A new research article by Milanović et al.

De Benedictis et al. found non-random functional patterns in grasslands below 10 cm, an almost unexplored scale range in any vegetation. Check our their new paper ”Measuring them all: Individual-based functional spatial pattern in mountain grasslands”.

An new Editorial by Michalet et al. reflects on contributions to the Special Issue on “Plant community responses to climate change”.

A new paper by Schrader et al. reports on A-Islands, a vascular dataset for biodiversity research and species monitoring on Australian continental islands.

Alonso-Crespo et al. explore priority and year effects on plant diversity, productivity and vertical root 𖣂 distribution. Read about their insights from a grassland field experiment.🌿.