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Global Trait– Environment Relationships of Plant Communities

Plant functional traits directly affect ecosystem functions. At the species level, trait combinations depend on trade-offs representing different ecological strategies, but at the community level trait combinations are expected to be decoupled from …

Plants, Microorganisms, and Soil Temperatures Contribute to a Decrease in Methane Fluxes on a Drained Arctic Floodplain

As surface temperatures are expected to rise in the future, ice-rich permafrost may thaw, altering soil topography and hydrology and creating a mosaic of wet and dry soil surfaces in the Arctic. Arctic wetlands are large sources of CH4, and …

Ecology: Ecosystem Responses to Climate Extremes

Extreme drought or wet conditions have now been found to strongly influence the vegetative development of ecosystems. Semi-arid regions are most affected - raising concerns about their vulnerability to long-term drought in the future. © 2015 …

Linking Plant and Ecosystem Functional Biogeography

Classical biogeographical observations suggest that ecosystems are strongly shaped by climatic constraints in terms of their structure and function. On the other hand, vegetation function feeds back on the climate system via biosphere-atmosphere …

Influence of Heterogeneous Landscapes on Computed Green-up Dates Based on Daily AVHRR NDVI Observations

The main objective of the current paper is to evaluate and explain differences between computed green-up dates of vegetated land surface derived from satellite observations and budburst dates from ground observational networks. Landscapes dominated …