funded by the EU Regional Development Fund within the framework of the Centre of Excellence EcolChange(2014-2020.4.01.15-0002),the European Commission through the European Research Council(advanced grant 322603,SIPVOL+),the Estonian Research Council(personal grant PSG884);base funding nr 190200,the National Natural Science foundation of China(31711530648);the Personnel Startup Project of the Scientific Research and Development Foundation of Zhejiang A&F University(2021FR041);the study was partly purchased from funding by the EU Regional Development Fund(AnaEE Estonia,2014-2020.4.01.20-0285,and the project“Plant Biology Infrastructure-TAIM”,2014-2020.4.01.20-0282);the Estonian Research Council(“Plant Biology Infrastructure-TAIM”,TT5).
Leaf economics spectrum(LES)describes the fundamental trade-offs between leaf structural,chemical,and physiological investments.Generally,structurally robust thick leaves with high leaf dry mass per unit area(LMA)exhi...
This work was supported by the National Key R&D Program of China(2022YFD2201100);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31971636);the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(2572022DS13).
The variation and correlation of leaf economics and vein traits are crucial for predicting plant ecological strategies under different environmental changes.However,correlations between these two suites of traits and ...
Of the various strategies adopted by an invasive plant species for expanding its niche breadth,phenotypic differentiation(either due to plasticity and/or adaptive evolution) is proven to be the most successful.Lately,...
The research was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.31970253 and 32270243);the Strategic Priority Research Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences(Grant No.XDB31010000);AL was also supported by a Ramon y Cajal contract(RYC-2015-19034)from the Spanish Ministry of Science,Innovation and Universities,the Spanish State Research Agency,European Social Funds(ESF invests in your future)and the University of the Balearic Islands,and by the project PRPPID2020-117863RB-I00;financed by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation and the Spanish Research Agency(MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033).
Floral trait variation may help pollinators and nectar robbers identify their target plants and,thus,lead to differential selection pressure for defense capability against floral antagonists.However,the effect of flor...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31800353);the Yunnan Fundamental Research Projects (202101AV070005);Yunnan High Level Talents Special Support Plan (YNWR-QNBJ-2018-309);Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (XDB31000000);the Youth Innovation Promotion Association of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Y202080);the West Light Foundation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences;supported by the National Science Foundation United States (NSF DEB-2029997)
Predicting species abundance is one of the most fundamental pursuits of ecology.Combining the information encoded in functional traits and metacommunities provides a new perspective to predict the abundance of species...
the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31870410 and Dimensions US-China:32061123003);the Chinese Academy of Sciences Youth Innovation Promotion Association,the West Light Foundation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Ten Thousand Talents Program of Yunnan(YNWR-QNBJ-2018-309)。
Plants deploy various ecological strategies in response to environmental heterogeneity.In many forest ecosystems,plants have been reported to have notable inter-and intra-specific trait variation,as well as clear phyl...
This study was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant no.31770569)and CAS 135 program(Grant no.XTBG-T01).The authors would like to thank the Xishuangbanna Station for Tropical Rain Forest Ecosystem Studies for assistance during the fieldwork and Prof.Richard Corlett for the insightful comments and revisions during the 2nd XTBG writing course 2017 at Kunming branch,XTBG.
Functional trait variation of plant species includes both inter-and intraspecific variation;however,traitbased plant ecology generally considers only interspecific variation while ignoring intraspecific variation.One ...
Funding for this study was provided by the U.S. National Science Foundation Hydrological Science grant 1521238;the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science Office of Biological and Environmental Research,Terrestrial Ecosystem Sciences Program Award No. DE-SC0007041;Ameriflux Management Project Core Site Agreement No. 7096915
Land surface models and dynamic global vegetation models typically represent vegetation through coarse plant functional type groupings based on leaf form, phenology, and bioclimatic limits. Although these groupings we...
supported by the National Key Basic Research Program of China (2014CB954100);the Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China (2012FY110800);the Applied Fundamental Research Foundation of Yunnan Province (2014GA003)
Characterizing trait variation across different ecological scales in plant communities has been viewed as a way to gain insights into the mechanisms driving species coexistence.However,little is known about how change...