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{"title":"Taxonomic, phylogenetic and functional β‐diversity of stream algae is driven by the number of added nutrients and herbivory","authors":"Sophia I. Passy, Chad A. Larson","doi":"10.1111/1365-2745.70167","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.70167","url":null,"abstract":"<jats:list> <jats:list-item>A growing body of mostly observational research has examined how <jats:italic>β</jats:italic>‐diversity and its turnover and nestedness components respond to environmental gradients across taxonomic, phylogenetic and functional dimensions. To our knowledge, this is the first manipulative investigation to assess how two major environmental influences—nutrient enrichment and herbivory—control <jats:italic>β</jats:italic>‐diversity and its components across dimensions in phototrophs.</jats:list-item> <jats:list-item>We used algal data from field and laboratory experiments, manipulating herbivory and/or the number of added nutrients (NAN), which ranged from zero to three (N, P and Fe) or four (N, P, Fe and Mn). We compared control/nutrient treatment communities with control communities and non‐grazed with grazed communities in terms of taxonomic, phylogenetic and functional diversity. Taxonomic and phylogenetic <jats:italic>β</jats:italic>‐diversity (<jats:italic>β</jats:italic><jats:sub>Sor</jats:sub>) was partitioned into turnover (<jats:italic>β</jats:italic><jats:sub>Sim</jats:sub>) and nestedness (<jats:italic>β</jats:italic><jats:sub>Nes</jats:sub>) components. We proposed a novel partitioning approach for functional <jats:italic>β</jats:italic>‐diversity, outperforming the conventional approach, which calculates <jats:italic>β</jats:italic><jats:sub>Sor</jats:sub>, <jats:italic>β</jats:italic><jats:sub>Sim</jats:sub> and <jats:italic>β</jats:italic><jats:sub>Nes</jats:sub>. Instead, we used Bray–Curtis distances derived from the number of taxa within morpho‐functional groups and calculated overall functional <jats:italic>β</jats:italic>‐diversity (<jats:italic>β</jats:italic><jats:sub>BC</jats:sub>) and its balance (<jats:italic>β</jats:italic><jats:sub>Bal</jats:sub>) and gradient (<jats:italic>β</jats:italic><jats:sub>Gra</jats:sub>) components.</jats:list-item> <jats:list-item>We developed three hypotheses predicting that (i) <jats:italic>β</jats:italic><jats:sub>Nes</jats:sub> and <jats:italic>β</jats:italic><jats:sub>Gra</jats:sub> would rise at higher NAN because of increased taxonomic richness, and phylogenetic and functional diversity (hypothesis 1); (ii) grazing would either reduce (hypothesis 2a) or elevate <jats:italic>β</jats:italic><jats:sub>Nes</jats:sub> and <jats:italic>β</jats:italic><jats:sub>Gra</jats:sub> (hypothesis 2b) depending on the balance between extinction of grazer‐sensitive taxa versus establishment of grazer‐resistant taxa; and (iii) the relative importance of <jats:italic>β</jats:italic><jats:sub>Nes</jats:sub> and <jats:italic>β</jats:italic><jats:sub>Gra</jats:sub> would depend on NAN and dimension (hypothesis 3). Our results supported Hypotheses 1, 2b and 3.</jats:list-item> <jats:list-item><jats:italic>Synthesis</jats:italic>. Across dimensions, enrichment with multiple nutrients elevated biodiversity, the nestedness and gradient components of <jats:italic>β</jats:italic>‐diversit","PeriodicalId":191,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Ecology","volume":"19 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2025-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145235331","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Warming effects on decomposition via trophic cascades vary across elevations in an alpine meadow ecosystem","authors":"Binyu Luo, Jingxue Zhao, A. Allan Degen, Mei Huang, Wenyin Wang, Tianyun Qi, Lauchlan H. Fraser, Zhen Peng, Lingyan Qi, Peipei Liu, Robert D. Holt, Zhanhuan Shang","doi":"10.1111/1365-2745.70173","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.70173","url":null,"abstract":"<h2> CONFLICT OF INTEREST STATEMENT</h2>\u0000<p>We declare we have no competing interests.</p>","PeriodicalId":191,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Ecology","volume":"11 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2025-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145209655","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Combined volunteer and ecological network observations show broad‐scale temperature‐sensitivity patterns for deciduous plant flowering and leaf‐out times across the eastern USA","authors":"Amanda S. Gallinat, Mark D. Schwartz, Alison Donnelly, Xiaolu Li, Theresa M. Crimmins","doi":"10.1111/1365-2745.70165","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.70165","url":null,"abstract":"<jats:list> <jats:list-item>Many plants are responding to increases in spring temperatures by advancing their leaf‐out and flowering times in temperate regions around the world. The magnitudes of species' sensitivities to temperature vary widely, and patterns within that variation can illuminate underlying phenological drivers related to species' life histories and local‐scale adaptations.</jats:list-item> <jats:list-item>The USA National Phenology Network (USA‐NPN) and the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) are two rapidly growing, taxonomically and geographically extensive phenology data resources in the USA that offer opportunities to explore emergent properties of spring phenology.</jats:list-item> <jats:list-item>Using observations of leaf‐out and flowering in temperate deciduous plant species from USA‐NPN (2009–2024) and NEON (2014–2022), we estimated species‐level flowering (<jats:italic>n</jats:italic> = 164) and leaf‐out (<jats:italic>n</jats:italic> = 136) sensitivities to temperatures of the preceding months, obtained through PRISM. We used the results to assess differences in sensitivities between the two datasets and among life history traits (e.g. introduced or native status, seasonal timing and growth habit) and to explore latitudinal patterns in sensitivity among and within species.</jats:list-item> <jats:list-item>We found significant relationships between temperature and leaf‐out phenology (2009–2024 for 109 (80%) species, ranging from −7.4 to −1.3 days/°C, and between temperature and flowering phenology for 140 (85%) species, ranging from −8.0 to −1.1 days/°C.</jats:list-item> <jats:list-item>Plant sensitivities were highly consistent among the USA‐NPN and NEON datasets, suggesting these datasets can be reasonably combined to expand the coverage of publicly available phenological data across the USA.</jats:list-item> <jats:list-item>Introduced species showed stronger sensitivity to temperature than native species for both leaf‐out (−0.8 days/°C difference) and flowering (−0.7 days/°C difference). The strongest (i.e. most negative) leaf‐out sensitivities to temperature were associated with earlier leaf‐out dates and strong flowering sensitivities.</jats:list-item> <jats:list-item>Latitudinal analyses within and across species indicate that flowering and leaf‐out sensitivities are both stronger at lower latitudes.</jats:list-item> <jats:list-item><jats:italic>Synthesis</jats:italic>. Phenological ‘big data’ encompassing over 100 species across the eastern USA shows that leaf‐out and flowering occur earlier with warmer temperatures and that native species and individuals at high latitudes tend to have weaker temperature sensitivities than introduced species and more southern plants; these findings suggest adaptations within and across species to avoid leafing out and flowering under harsh environmental conditions.</jats:list-item> </jats:list>","PeriodicalId":191,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Ecology","volume":"22 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2025-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145195154","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Multidimensional diversity recovery following invasive species removal: Roles of colonization, extinction and abundance shifts","authors":"Bingwei Lv, Shu-ya Fan, Xiaorong Lu, Yani Meng, Wenbo Yu, Shan Rao, Xiaoye Shi, Yue Li, Yangfan Fei, Yan-song Zhang, Wen-gang Zhang, Qi Yao, Guomeng Zhao, Caiyue Yang, Xiang Li, Jiamin Liu, Shao-peng Li","doi":"10.1111/1365-2745.70168","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.70168","url":null,"abstract":"<h2> CONFLICT OF INTEREST STATEMENT</h2>\u0000<p>The authors declare no competing financial interests.</p>","PeriodicalId":191,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Ecology","volume":"70 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2025-09-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145183196","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Increased nitrogen deposition may facilitate an invasive plant species through interfering plant–pathogen interactions","authors":"Tiantian Lin, Shuya Yang, Abdul Manan, Yuange Zhang, Guoqing Zhu, Wanci He, Xiaotao Han, Yan Wang, Bo Li","doi":"10.1111/1365-2745.70163","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.70163","url":null,"abstract":"<h2> CONFLICT OF INTEREST STATEMENT</h2>\u0000<p>The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.</p>","PeriodicalId":191,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Ecology","volume":"42 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2025-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145153941","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Community-level plant functional strategies explain ecosystem carbon storage across a tropical elevational gradient","authors":"Dickson Gerald Mauki, Peter Manning, Matthias Schleuning, Andreas Hemp, David Schellenberger Costa, Natalia Sierra Cornejo, Joscha N. Becker, Andreas Ensslin, Gemma Rutten, Tim Appelhans, Margot Neyret","doi":"10.1111/1365-2745.70162","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.70162","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;h2&gt;1 INTRODUCTION&lt;/h2&gt;\u0000&lt;p&gt;Plant species differ in their allocation of resources to growth, reproduction, and survival, resulting in trait combinations that represent adaptation strategies to various environmental conditions (Chapin III et al., &lt;span&gt;1993&lt;/span&gt;; Reich, &lt;span&gt;2014&lt;/span&gt;; Wright et al., &lt;span&gt;2004&lt;/span&gt;). Global variation in above-ground traits is described in the &lt;i&gt;global spectrum of form and function&lt;/i&gt;, which differentiates two principal axes of trait variation. The first contrasts &lt;i&gt;fast&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;resource-acquisitive&lt;/i&gt; strategies with &lt;i&gt;slow&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;resource-conserving&lt;/i&gt; strategies (Wright et al., &lt;span&gt;2004&lt;/span&gt;), and the second is related to plant and seed size (Díaz et al., &lt;span&gt;2016&lt;/span&gt;; Reich, &lt;span&gt;2014&lt;/span&gt;). Additional strategy axes have also been described for below-ground traits, with the &lt;i&gt;collaboration&lt;/i&gt; axis describing a gradient of strategies for acquiring soil resources. This ranges from plants with a &lt;i&gt;do-it-yourself&lt;/i&gt; strategy that acquire resources via direct root uptake to species &lt;i&gt;outsourcing&lt;/i&gt; resource acquisition by forming relationships with mycorrhizal fungi (Bergmann et al., &lt;span&gt;2020&lt;/span&gt;; Weigelt et al., &lt;span&gt;2021&lt;/span&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;\u0000&lt;p&gt;There is evidence that the major axes of functional strategy variation, initially described for individual species, can also manifest at the community level. This is due to habitat filtering selecting for consistent traits across multiple species of a community (Bruelheide et al., &lt;span&gt;2018&lt;/span&gt;). These community-level trait responses are often described using abundance-weighted mean trait values (CWMs). CWMs have been shown to vary in response to environmental gradients across scales. For instance, at a global level, CWMs of plant traits related to a &lt;i&gt;conservative&lt;/i&gt; strategy are closely correlated with precipitation gradients, while traits associated with plant size and nutrient acquisition are strongly linked to temperature (Bouchard et al., &lt;span&gt;2024&lt;/span&gt;; Joswig et al., &lt;span&gt;2022&lt;/span&gt;; Moles et al., &lt;span&gt;2014&lt;/span&gt;; Xu et al., &lt;span&gt;2023&lt;/span&gt;). Additionally, at the regional scale, Li et al. (&lt;span&gt;2017&lt;/span&gt;) observed strong associations between precipitation and CWM root traits related to mycorrhizal colonization, whereas at the local scale, Schellenberger Costa et al. (&lt;span&gt;2017&lt;/span&gt;) observed a positive relationship between &lt;i&gt;resource-acquisitive&lt;/i&gt; traits and precipitation.&lt;/p&gt;\u0000&lt;p&gt;As plant traits can affect the rate of biogeochemical processes (Chacón-Labella et al., &lt;span&gt;2023&lt;/span&gt;), both climate and variation in community-level strategies can influence ecosystem functioning (Freschet et al., &lt;span&gt;2010&lt;/span&gt;; Neyret et al., &lt;span&gt;2024&lt;/span&gt;; Reich, &lt;span&gt;2014&lt;/span&gt;). For instance, Manning et al. (&lt;span&gt;2015&lt;/span&gt;) found significant effects of both mean annual temperature and CWM leaf nitrogen content on soil carbon, and Huxley et al. (&lt;span&gt;2023&lt;/span&gt;) found significant direct and indirect trait-mediated ","PeriodicalId":191,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Ecology","volume":"63 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2025-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145140956","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Linking response traits of novel seaweed communities to variation in environmental drivers across microhabitats of a tropical reef","authors":"Hope Ashworth, George M. Colaco, Kaylee Cooper, Lauren L. Smith, Anne Tsai, Bethany Woo, Ashlyn T. Ford, Peggy Fong","doi":"10.1111/1365-2745.70166","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.70166","url":null,"abstract":"<h2> CONFLICT OF INTEREST STATEMENT</h2>\u0000<p>The authors declare no conflict of interest.</p>","PeriodicalId":191,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Ecology","volume":"17 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2025-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145134459","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Drought legacy effects on plant growth and plant–soil feedback are mediated by soil microbial communities independently of root exudates and root litter","authors":"Eileen Enderle, Leonardo Hinojosa, Victor Lombard, Fangbin Hou, Franciska T. de Vries","doi":"10.1111/1365-2745.70160","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.70160","url":null,"abstract":"<jats:list> <jats:list-item>Extreme droughts alter vegetation dynamics worldwide and the effects often persist after the drought ended. Indirect drought effects mediated by the soil microbial community can continue to affect plant growth during drought recovery and may impact plant–soil feedback (PSF), the effect a species has on its own growth via its rhizosphere microbiome. Changes in plant inputs to the soil, such as root exudates and litter, may drive these drought legacy effects through changes in soil bacterial and fungal communities.</jats:list-item> <jats:list-item>In a three‐stage greenhouse experiment, we assessed drought legacy effects on plant biomass and PSF of three common grassland species. In a first conditioning phase, soil was conditioned directly by plants under drought and ambient conditions. In a second conditioning phase, soil was conditioned by the addition of either conditioned soil inoculum or root exudates or root litter produced in the first phase by droughted or non‐droughted plants. In the feedback phase, a new set of plants was grown in soil conditioned by the same species compared to soil conditioned by another species across all soil conditioning types and their biomass linked to soil microbial community data.</jats:list-item> <jats:list-item>We found that only soil conditioning with plants, but not inoculum, exudates or litter, resulted in a consistent negative drought legacy effect on plant growth, which was linked to lower microbial biomass and shifts in bacterial and fungal community composition. We could identify a set of fungal and bacterial taxa which were differentially abundant in drought and well‐watered soil and accurately predicted plant growth. PSF in plant‐conditioned soil differed between species, but was only affected by drought in <jats:italic>Rumex acetosa</jats:italic>. This pattern was not reproduced through the addition of inoculum, root exudates or root litter.</jats:list-item> <jats:list-item><jats:italic>Synthesis</jats:italic>. Our results show that drought indirectly restricts plant growth, which is not mediated by root exudates or root litter, but through altering microbial biomass and community composition. These findings suggest that plant recovery from extreme drought is obstructed by persistent changes in soil microbial communities.</jats:list-item> </jats:list>","PeriodicalId":191,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Ecology","volume":"73 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2025-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145140957","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Using traits to integrate non‐additive effects of species mixtures across ecosystem processes","authors":"Chao Guo, Jasper van Ruijven, Oscar Franken, Saori Fujii, Matty P. Berg, David A. Wardle, J. Hans C. Cornelissen","doi":"10.1111/1365-2745.70169","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.70169","url":null,"abstract":"<jats:list> <jats:list-item>Whether and how biodiversity affects ecosystem functioning has long been hotly debated in ecological research and conservation. Important in this debate is how interactions between species in a community lead to non‐additive effects (i.e. effects that deviate from predictions based on the effects of each single species) on ecosystem processes. Such non‐additivity has been widely reported for individual processes, for example productivity, decomposition, fire, herbivory or pollination.</jats:list-item> <jats:list-item>However, species in a community are simultaneously involved in multiple ecosystem processes. We therefore propose a trait‐based conceptual approach to connect non‐additive effects based on species interactions across different specific ecosystem processes and illustrate its potential. The approach involves plotting the direction and strength of non‐additivity due to species interaction effects for any given ecosystem process against the values of relevant predictive traits for all possible pairs of species considered in a community.</jats:list-item> <jats:list-item><jats:italic>Synthesis</jats:italic>: We show how to compare the non‐additivity patterns for different ecosystem processes using similar ‘currency’ and how to link these to the main effects of the same species on these ecosystem processes. This way the species' effects on higher‐level ecosystem functioning (e.g. carbon cycling), in present and future environmental scenarios, can be better quantified. The conceptual framework requires empirical testing and incorporation of relevant environmental factors.</jats:list-item> </jats:list>","PeriodicalId":191,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Ecology","volume":"40 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2025-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145133544","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Asynchronous phenological responses to warming affect biomass production contrastingly in flowering functional groups","authors":"Tianwu Zhang, Yaya Chen, Xiangrong Yang, Li Huang, Hui Zhang, Zengpeng Guo, Yinguang Sun, Miaojun Ma","doi":"10.1111/1365-2745.70164","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.70164","url":null,"abstract":"<jats:list> <jats:list-item>Earlier spring vegetation growth under warming can either enhance summer height growth by increasing carbon sequestration potential or impair it by consuming additional resources needed for subsequent growth. However, the underlying mechanism and its temporal variations remain unclear.</jats:list-item> <jats:list-item>Based on a 7‐year field experiment with warming and altered precipitation in an alpine meadow on the eastern Tibetan Plateau, we examined their effects on leaf emergence and reproductive phenology, plant height at different phenological stages, height growth rate and biomass production between flowering functional groups (FFGs) from 2021 to 2023.</jats:list-item> <jats:list-item>We found that warming differentially affected the height growth rates of alpine plants during their reproductive stages between FFGs and that asynchronous responses of reproductive phenology to warming further mediated warming effects on biomass production. Specifically, for early‐spring flowering plants, warming advanced spring phenology and increased plant height growth rate between leaf emergence and flowering but constrained height growth rate in the later fruiting period, thereby reducing their biomass production. In contrast, for mid‐summer flowering plants, warming consistently advanced both vegetative and reproductive phenological events and promoted plant height growth rate throughout the growing season, ultimately increasing biomass production.</jats:list-item> <jats:list-item><jats:italic>Synthesis.</jats:italic> These results emphasize the critical role of height growth rate and plant phenology in the biomass production of alpine plants under ongoing climate change. Our study additionally highlights the importance of understanding how plant functional groups govern responses to changing climate conditions, which is essential for forecasting phenological and community‐level changes.</jats:list-item> </jats:list>","PeriodicalId":191,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Ecology","volume":"90 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2025-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145116175","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}