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Sinan Gürlek, Ana Claudia Araújo, Neil Brummitt, Marta Puglisi
Mosses are an early lineage of the plant kingdom, with around 13,000 species. Although an important part of biodiversity, providing crucial ecosystem services, many species are threatened with extinction. However, only circa 300 species have so far had their extinction risk evaluated globally for the IUCN Red List.…
T. J. Deilmann, M. Bernhardt‐Römermann, J. Hentschel, P. Gros + 1 more
'C. Römermann'] Title: ABSTRACT Bryophytes form an integral component in numerous ecosystems. They impact ecosystem processes by regulating water, carbon, and nutrient input into the soil, making them an ecologically significant but understudied group of plants. To understand ecosystem processes, functional traits…
Zhe Wang, Sheng-Xuan Cai, Jing-Rou Yu, Dan-Dan Li + 4 more
As a non-negligible component of functional trait diversity, intraspecific trait variation (ITV) represents a direct response of local populations to environmental change and significantly influences ecological processes such as species dispersal, community assembly, and ecosystem functioning. Although extensively…
Xiaotong Song, Jiqi Gu, Yanhui Ye, Mengzhen Wang + 4 more
'Heping Ma' 'Xiaoming Shao' 'Marko Sabovljevic'] Investigating intraspecific trait variability is crucial for understanding plant adaptation to various environments, yet research on lithophytic mosses in extreme environments remains scarce. This study focuses on Indusiella thianschanica Broth. Hal., a unique…
Marcos Fernández-Martínez, Jordi Corbera, Oriol Cano-Rocabayera, Francesc Sabater + 4 more
Differences in the elemental composition of plants, mainly C, N, and P, have been shown to be related to differences in their nutritional status, and their morphological and functional traits. The relationship between morphological traits and micronutrients and trace elements, however, has been much less studied.…
Tobi A. Oke, Merritt R. Turetsky, David J. Weston, A. Jonathan Shaw
Bryophytes are a diverse plant group and are functionally different from vascular plants. Yet, plant ecology theories and hypotheses are often presented in an inclusive term. The trait-based approach to ecology is no exception; largely focusing on vascular plant traits and almost exclusively on interspecific traits.…
Kristian Peters, Jörg Ziegler, Steffen Neumann
In the context of biodiversity, only few functional traits and mechanisms are known from underrepresented groups such as mosses (bryophytes). Here, we use 16 field samples of complex thallose liverworts (order Marchantiales) collected from biological soil crusts as reference data for the reusable computational…
Thomas G. J. Chandler, Jordan Ferria, Oliver Shorthose, Jean‐Marc Allain + 3 more
'Jean‐Marc Allain' 'Perla Maiolino' 'Arezki Boudaoud' 'Dominic Vella'] Everyday experience shows that cellular sheets are stiffened by the presence of a pressurized gas: from bicycle inner tubes to bubble wrap, the presence of an internal pressure increases the stiffness of otherwise floppy structures. The same is true…
Lorenzo Maria Iozia, Virginia Crisafulli, Laura Varone
Summer drought represents one of the main stress sources stress for plant communities in the Mediterranean region. Plants can adopt several response strategies to cope with stress, reflected in the adoption of specific Plant Functional Traits (PFTs). Trait-based approaches commonly meet three critical issues: they…
Kenny Helsen, Jéssica Lira Viana, Tsung-Yi Lin, Li-Yaung Kuo + 1 more
While functional trait-trait and trait-environment relationships are well studied in angiosperms, it is less clear if similar relationships, such as the leaf economics spectrum (LES), hold for ferns, and whether they differ between terrestrial and epiphytic fern communities. We used vegetation data collected along an…
Xin Chen, Peter Denninger, Tanja Stimpel‐Lindner, Erdmann Spiecker + 4 more
'Georg S. Duesberg' 'Claudia Backes' 'Kathrin C. Knirsch' 'Andreas Hirsch'] Abstract: Two-dimensional (2D) molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) holds great promise in electronic and optoelectronic applications owing to its unique structure and intriguing properties. The intrinsic defects such as sulfur vacancies (SVs) of MoS2…
Rose A. Marks, Mpho Mbobe, Marilize Greyling, Jennie Pretorius + 3 more
Resilience to abiotic stress is associated with a suite of functional traits related to defense and longevity. Stress tolerant plants are generally slow growing with extended leave lifespans and reduced allocation to reproduction. Resurrection plants are ideal systems to test for trade-offs associated with stress…
Fons van der Plas, Thomas Schröder-Georgi, Alexandra Weigelt, Kathryn Barry + 29 more
Earth is home to over 350,000 vascular plant species^1^ that differ in their traits in innumerable ways. Yet, a handful of functional traits can help explaining major differences among species in photosynthetic rate, growth rate, reproductive output and other aspects of plant performance^2–6^. A key challenge, coined…
Andréa Davrinche, Anna Bittner, Helge Bruelheide, Georg Albert + 2 more
Leaf functional traits provide important insights into plants’ responses to different environments. Leaf traits have been increasingly studied within-species in the last decade, following the growing realisation that neglecting the intra-specific scale can result in misreading plants’ response to environmental change.…
Alexey Ryabov, Bernd Blasius, Helmut Hillebrand, Irina Olenina + 1 more
'Thilo Groß'] HIFMB, Helmholtz Institute for Functional Marine Biodiversity, Oldenburg, Germany Univeristy of Oldenburg, Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment, Oldenburg, Germany Alfred-Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Center for Marine and Polar Research, Bremerhaven, Germany TU Dresden, Institute…
Philip A. White, Michael F. Christensen, Henry Frye, Alan E. Gelfand + 1 more
'John A. Silander'] The investigation of leaf-level traits in response to varying environmental conditions has immense importance for understanding plant ecology. Remote sensing technology enables measurement of the reflectance of plants to make inferences about underlying traits along environmental gradients. While…