{"title":"Correction to ‘Climate change and exotic pathogens shift carbon allocation in Mediterranean mixed forests’","authors":"","doi":"10.1111/1365-2745.14478","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.14478","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Gaytán, Á., Matías, L., Godoy, Ó., Pérez-Ramos, I. M., Homet, P., Moreira, X., & Gómez-Aparicio, L. (2024). Climate change and exotic pathogens shift carbon allocation in Mediterranean mixed forests. <i>Journal of Ecology</i>, <i>112</i>(12), 2843–2860. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.14426.</p>\u0000<p>In Figure 2, the years in the headings of Columns 3 and 4 are incorrect—they should read 2018.</p>\u0000<p>The updated Figure 2 is included below.</p>\u0000<figure><picture>\u0000<source media=\"(min-width: 1650px)\" srcset=\"/cms/asset/1dee3598-d27f-459e-98d2-1b2310fd4b4d/jec14478-fig-0001-m.jpg\"/><img alt=\"Details are in the caption following the image\" data-lg-src=\"/cms/asset/1dee3598-d27f-459e-98d2-1b2310fd4b4d/jec14478-fig-0001-m.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/cms/asset/78cf6b0b-fff9-414f-a689-a06e6a850c05/jec14478-fig-0001-m.png\" title=\"Details are in the caption following the image\"/></picture><figcaption>\u0000<div><strong>FIGURE 2<span style=\"font-weight:normal\"></span></strong><div>Open in figure viewer<i aria-hidden=\"true\"></i><span>PowerPoint</span></div>\u0000</div>\u0000<div>Relationships between <i>P. cinnamomi</i> abundance in the soil and photosynthetic rates, acorn production and abortion, <i>Olea</i> fruit production, and root NSC at the two forest types 1 year (2017) and 2 years (2018) after the start of the experiment. The lines and shaded areas are the model predictions and associated 95% confidence intervals (respectively). Continuous lines indicate effects included in the best models, whereas discontinuous lines indicate effects included in the subset of best models (∆AIC < 2 with the best model; Tables 1 and 2). Regressions are shown separated by species only when the best models included the interaction of rainfall exclusion with the species. NA indicates the absence of data. Note that the range of the x-axis varied among forest types and years, being larger in the closed forest, particularly in 2018. In panels marked with asterisks (i.e., acorn production in 2018), y-values should be interpreted as of an order of magnitude smaller (<i>y</i>-axis ×10<sup>−1</sup>).</div>\u0000</figcaption>\u0000</figure>\u0000<p>We apologize for this error.</p>","PeriodicalId":191,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Ecology","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2024-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142905053","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":"Precipitation anomalies may affect productivity resilience by shifting plant community properties","authors":"Sierra Perez, Mark Hammond, Jennifer Lau","doi":"10.1111/1365-2745.14471","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.14471","url":null,"abstract":"<h2>1 INTRODUCTION</h2>\u0000<p>Climate change is disrupting historic environmental regimes, including increases in the frequency and severity of extreme climatic events, such as droughts and intense rainfall periods (IPCC, <span>2021</span>; Smith, <span>2011</span>). The impacts of droughts on plant communities and their associated ecosystem functions are well appreciated. For example, droughts can alter community composition (Gao et al., <span>2022</span>; Hoover et al., <span>2014</span>; Xu et al., <span>2021</span>) and drive significant reductions in primary productivity (Gao et al., <span>2019</span>; Liu et al., <span>2023</span>; Su et al., <span>2022</span>), and these impacts often persist post-drought (‘drought legacies’; Müller & Bahn, <span>2022</span>; Vilonen et al., <span>2022</span>). The consequences of highly wet periods, by contrast, have thus far received less attention, despite heavy rainfall events increasing over the past century throughout the contiguous United States and in many other regions worldwide (IPCC, <span>2021</span>; Jay et al., <span>2018</span>). Further, the impacts of extreme wet and dry events are often evaluated independently (although see Isbell et al., <span>2015</span>; Sala et al., <span>2012</span>; Wilcox et al., <span>2017</span>), despite both types of ‘precipitation events’ (see Box 1) increasing in many regions. Therefore, to persist and maintain critical ecosystem functions plant communities must be resilient to both of these contrasting precipitation events.</p>\u0000<div>\u0000<h3><span>BOX 1. </span>Key terms and definitions</h3>\u0000<p>\u0000</p><div>\u0000<div tabindex=\"0\">\u0000<table>\u0000<tbody>\u0000<tr>\u0000<td><i>Precipitation event</i>: Periods when water availability is outside ‘normal’; a drought (SPEI < −1) or wet event (SPEI > 1)</td>\u0000</tr>\u0000<tr>\u0000<td><i>Standardized precipitation–evapotranspiration index (SPEI)</i>: Measure of an ecosystem's water availability resulting from the difference between inputs from precipitation and outputs from potential evapotranspiration</td>\u0000</tr>\u0000<tr>\u0000<td><i>Resilience</i>: A multi-dimensional quality that describes an ecosystem's capacity to absorb perturbations and persist in a reference state</td>\u0000</tr>\u0000<tr>\u0000<td style=\"padding-left:2em;\"><i>Resistance</i>: The degree to which an ecosystem function (e.g. productivity) changes in response to a perturbation</td>\u0000</tr>\u0000<tr>\u0000<td style=\"padding-left:2em;\"><i>Recovery</i>: The rate at which an ecosystem function returns to pre-perturbation conditions in the year after a perturbation; sometimes called ‘resilience’ (e.g. Pimm, <span>1984</span>)</td>\u0000</tr>\u0000<tr>\u0000<td style=\"padding-left:2em;\"><i>Invariability</i>: The degree to which an ecosystem function varies through time. Often used synonymously with ‘stability’</td>\u0000</tr>\u0000</tbody>\u0000</table>\u0000</div>\u0000<div></div>\u0000</div>\u0000<p></p>\u0000</div>\u0000<p>Resilience is a multi-dimensional quality that describes an ecosystem's capacity to absorb perturbations and persist in a reference state (Box 1; Van Mee","PeriodicalId":191,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Ecology","volume":"46 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2024-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142902232","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}
Rong Liu, Xuejun Yang, Ruiru Gao, Bohan Jiao, Zhenying Huang, Johannes H. C. Cornelissen
{"title":"Testing the biogeochemical niche hypothesis using leaves, stems and roots of 62 Artemisia species across China","authors":"Rong Liu, Xuejun Yang, Ruiru Gao, Bohan Jiao, Zhenying Huang, Johannes H. C. Cornelissen","doi":"10.1111/1365-2745.14469","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.14469","url":null,"abstract":"<jats:list> <jats:list-item>The biogeochemical niche (BN) hypothesis is based on the concentrations of the predominant elements of a given organism to be stoichiometrically matched in order for it to function adequately. However, it is unknown how BN is represented by different plant organs and to what extent environment or evolution affects BN.</jats:list-item> <jats:list-item>We measured C, N, P, K, Ca and Mg concentrations in leaves, stems and roots of 1022 individuals of 62 <jats:italic>Artemisia</jats:italic> species collected across China to quantify BNs of the three organs.</jats:list-item> <jats:list-item>The BN of leaves was offset from and smaller in volume than that of stems and roots. BNs of the three organs differed in their sensitivities to environmental gradients, and leaves were less responsive to environmental variation than stems and roots in both BN volumes and positions. Environmental gradients had larger effects on BN positions than on BN volumes of all three organs. The BN volumes and positions of leaves and roots had no phylogenetic signal, while stem BN had a weak signal, that is, repeated species divergences from various <jats:italic>Artemisia</jats:italic> branches explained most of the BN variation of the three organs.</jats:list-item> <jats:list-item>The BN hypothesis cannot be fully tested using the elemental composition of a single organ owing to different physiological mechanisms and diverse responses of BN among organs. At least in <jats:italic>Artemisia</jats:italic>, leaves are strongly constrained in a limited elemental niche space to support a relatively stable supply of elements for leaf functioning, especially photosynthesis. In contrast, stems and roots develop larger elemental hypervolumes also representing nutrient storage and other functions. The BNs of <jats:italic>Artemisia</jats:italic> showed different environmental responses between volumes and positions, allowing these species to adjust elemental concentrations while maintaining a stable overall elemental composition under different environmental conditions.</jats:list-item> <jats:list-item><jats:italic>Synthesis</jats:italic>. In conclusion, BNs of extant <jats:italic>Artemisia</jats:italic> populations are determined mostly by short‐term phenotypic responses to current environmental conditions and/or genotypic variation, while the recently evolved species diversity results mostly from species‐specific and organ‐specific use of nutrients and little by early divergence in the phylogeny.</jats:list-item> </jats:list>","PeriodicalId":191,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Ecology","volume":"87 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2024-12-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142888322","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}
Bérangère A. Leys, Michelle Leydet, Eric Meineri, Arne Saatkamp, Cyrille Violle
{"title":"Functional responses of Mediterranean flora to fire: A community-scale perspective","authors":"Bérangère A. Leys, Michelle Leydet, Eric Meineri, Arne Saatkamp, Cyrille Violle","doi":"10.1111/1365-2745.14465","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.14465","url":null,"abstract":"<h2> CONFLICT OF INTEREST STATEMENT</h2>\u0000<p>The authors declare no conflicts of interest. Bérangère A. Leys is an Associate Editor for <i>Journal of Ecology</i>, but took no part in the peer review or decision making process for this article.</p>","PeriodicalId":191,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Ecology","volume":"30 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2024-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142857797","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}
Emily R. Wedel, Zak Ratajczak, E. Greg Tooley, Jesse B. Nippert
{"title":"Divergent resource-use strategies of encroaching shrubs: Can traits predict encroachment success in tallgrass prairie?","authors":"Emily R. Wedel, Zak Ratajczak, E. Greg Tooley, Jesse B. Nippert","doi":"10.1111/1365-2745.14456","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.14456","url":null,"abstract":"<h2> CONFLICT OF INTEREST STATEMENT</h2>\u0000<p>The authors declare no conflicts of interest.</p>","PeriodicalId":191,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Ecology","volume":"19 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2024-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142816073","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}
Ren Bai, Hang-Wei Hu, An-Hui Ge, Meng Zhou, Jun Sheng, Guangyuan Yuan, Wen-Hao Zhang, Wenming Bai
{"title":"Assemblies of leaf and root mycobiomes in a temperate grassland: Dispersal limitation overpowers selection","authors":"Ren Bai, Hang-Wei Hu, An-Hui Ge, Meng Zhou, Jun Sheng, Guangyuan Yuan, Wen-Hao Zhang, Wenming Bai","doi":"10.1111/1365-2745.14467","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.14467","url":null,"abstract":"<h2> CONFLICT OF INTEREST STATEMENT</h2>\u0000<p>The authors declare that they have no known competing 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":"233 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2024-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142816074","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}
Samuel P. Reed, Alejandro A. Royo, Walter P. Carson, Castilleja F. Olmsted, Lee E. Frelich, Peter B. Reich
{"title":"Multiple disturbances, multiple legacies: Fire, canopy gaps and deer jointly change the forest seed bank","authors":"Samuel P. Reed, Alejandro A. Royo, Walter P. Carson, Castilleja F. Olmsted, Lee E. Frelich, Peter B. Reich","doi":"10.1111/1365-2745.14459","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.14459","url":null,"abstract":"<h2>1 INTRODUCTION</h2>\u0000<p>Forests around the world have experienced substantial changes in their historic disturbance regimes with altered land use, climate change or forced removal of Indigenous peoples (Bowman et al., <span>2011</span>; Gilliam, <span>2016</span>; Götmark, <span>2013</span>; Kelly et al., <span>2023</span>). Many mesic temperate forests in North America, Europe and Asia have become more even aged, undergone severe fire suppression and experienced increased ungulate browsing (Carpio et al., <span>2021</span>; Frelich, <span>2002</span>; Hai et al., <span>2023</span>; McDowell et al., <span>2020</span>; Pascual-Rico et al., <span>2021</span>). These altered conditions create adverse environments for the plant species that coevolved and depend on historic disturbance patterns, such as globally dispersed oak (<i>Quercus</i>) species (Carrero et al., <span>2020</span>; Tinner et al., <span>2005</span>). Changes in plant composition with altered disturbance regimes have led managers to restore or manipulate disturbance to support biodiversity and ecosystem function (Long, <span>2009</span>; Stanturf et al., <span>2014</span>). However, our understanding of how the reintroduction of multiple historic disturbances influences biodiversity is nascent and represents a key knowledge gap in our long-term management and restoration of temperate forest systems.</p>\u0000<p>Mesic North American forests are expansive ecosystems that have experienced dramatic alterations in their disturbance regimes over the last century (Abrams, <span>2005</span>; Hanberry & Nowacki, <span>2016</span>; Vander Yacht et al., <span>2020</span>; Webster et al., <span>2018</span>). This scenario is particularly acute in Appalachian hardwood forests, which have lost oak (<i>Quercus</i> spp.) tree regeneration and are transitioning to wetter, maple-dominated (<i>Acer</i> spp.) systems (Nowacki & Abrams, <span>2008</span>; Pile Knapp et al., <span>2024</span>). This transition from oak to maple forests was initiated by the forced removal of Indigenous peoples and their use of cultural burning as a management tool (Abrams et al., <span>2021</span>; Pile Knapp et al., <span>2024</span>; Poulos, <span>2015</span>). This was followed by mass deforestation and slash wildfires in the late 19th and early 20th century (Lafon et al., <span>2017</span>). Negative perceptions of these wildfires led to a century of state-sanctioned fire exclusion and suppression that favoured maple growth and wetter understories (Alexander et al., <span>2021</span>; Arthur et al., <span>2021</span>). As a result, Appalachian forests became dominated by even-aged stands with few mid-sized and large (>15-m diameter; >175 m<sup>2</sup>) canopy gaps and infrequent low-intensity fires (Clebsch & Busing, <span>1989</span>; Nowacki & Abrams, <span>2008</span>; Raymond et al., <span>2009</span>). In regions of Appalachia, the fire return interval is now over 10,000 years, as opposed to t","PeriodicalId":191,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Ecology","volume":"21 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2024-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142810175","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":"Correction to “Predicting intraspecific trait variation among California's grasses”","authors":"","doi":"10.1111/1365-2745.14466","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.14466","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Sandel, B., Pavelka, C., Hayashi, T., et al. (2021) Predicting intraspecific trait variation among California's grasses. <i>Journal of Ecology</i>, <i>109</i>, 2662–2677. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.13673.</p>\u0000<p>In the paper by Sandel et al. (2021), an error has been identified in the code.</p>\u0000<p>The error was in generating the testing data subset for assessing random forest fit, causing it to not be independent of the training dataset. This affects Figures 3-5, and the corrected versions of these are included below. Table S3 has been updated in the article. The updated text referring to these figures in the section ‘3.2 Modelling ITV’ is also included below. The changes do not fundamentally alter the message of the paper.</p>\u0000<figure><picture>\u0000<source media=\"(min-width: 1650px)\" srcset=\"/cms/asset/a95ce570-b963-458a-ba8f-8032e33fc08f/jec14466-fig-0001-m.jpg\"/><img alt=\"Details are in the caption following the image\" data-lg-src=\"/cms/asset/a95ce570-b963-458a-ba8f-8032e33fc08f/jec14466-fig-0001-m.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"/cms/asset/58c707eb-7764-4f13-910e-032b1da04aae/jec14466-fig-0001-m.png\" title=\"Details are in the caption following the image\"/></picture><figcaption>\u0000<div><strong>FIGURE 3<span style=\"font-weight:normal\"></span></strong><div>Open in figure viewer<i aria-hidden=\"true\"></i><span>PowerPoint</span></div>\u0000</div>\u0000<div>Improvements in model performance when adding variable groupings. Model performance was measured as the correlation between observed and predicted delta-trait values in the testing dataset. For each variable group, we take the mean performance of all models that included that variable group minus the mean performance for all models that excluded that variable. Climate variables were mean annual temperature and annual precipitation; local traits were local measures of specific leaf area (SLA), height or leaf area (LA) at a site, excluding the predicted measures (e.g. models predicting SLA were trained on Height and LA); species traits were the overall species means of SLA, height and LA; phylogeny was the first five phylogenetic Eigenvector maps; and species name is a categorical variable giving the species name.</div>\u0000</figcaption>\u0000</figure>\u0000<p><b>3.2 Modelling</b> <b>ITV</b></p>\u0000<p>Across all specifications of the random forest models, performance scores were very similar on the training and testing data subsets (on average, differing by <0.09, Table S3), suggesting little overfitting. When applied to the testing dataset, random forests containing all five predictor groups predicted values that were well correlated with the observed trait values (for delta-SLA: 0.74, SLA: 0.82, delta-Height: 0.67, Height = 0.88, delta-LA: 0.72, LA: 0.89, Table S3). Across all subsets of variable groups, other local traits (values of the non-focal trait from the local population, e.g. when predicting SLA, the Height of the plants) and climate were the most important groups for model performance (Figure 3). Species mean tra","PeriodicalId":191,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Ecology","volume":"111 3S 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2024-12-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142797797","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":"Avian seed dispersal out of the forests: A view through the lens of Pleistocene landscapes","authors":"Juan P. González-Varo","doi":"10.1111/1365-2745.14457","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.14457","url":null,"abstract":"<h2>1 INTRODUCTION</h2>\u0000<p>The way we tackle and interpret how ecological communities respond to anthropogenic impacts largely depends on our baseline, that is, on the scenarios we envisage prior to human intervention (Pausas & Bond, <span>2019</span>; Vera, <span>2010</span>). During the 19th and 20th centuries, the baseline for the temperate lowlands of Europe was a continuous primeval forest dominated by broadleaved deciduous trees (reviewed by Vera, <span>2000</span>). This hypothesis was mainly founded on the observation that fields and meadows can spontaneously develop into forests after the abandonment of agriculture and livestock farming. The baseline of the primeval forest was challenged by Frans Vera (<span>2000</span>) in his influential book <i>Grazing Ecology and Forest History</i> where the author presented diverse and compelling evidence supporting an alternative hypothesis: grazing and browsing by extinct megaherbivores should have created and maintained wood pastures, which must have been a widespread landscape type in post-glacial temperate Europe (Vera, <span>2000</span>). The book contains perspectives from succession ecology, plant regeneration, palynology, paleoecology, history and even linguistics (Vera, <span>2000</span>). Recently, a large-scale palynological study (Pearce et al., <span>2023</span>) has provided further support to Vera's hypothesis by estimating that light woodland (shade-intolerant taxa) and open vegetation covered more than half of European landscapes during the Last Interglacial period (129,000–116,000 years ago). In parallel, another study has estimated a loss of ~95% of community-wide biomass of European megafauna (wild terrestrial mammals ≥10 kg) since the Last Interglacial along with the loss of the largest species of megaherbivores, including elephants and rhinos (Davoli et al., <span>2024</span>). In addition, a further palynological study suggests that the vegetation composition in the Last Interglacial is better explained by the role of megaherbivores than by fire regimes (Pearce et al., <span>2024</span>).</p>\u0000<p>Hence, current evidence supports that the temperate zone of Europe was not a closed continuous forest, but a more heterogeneous biome with open vegetation (mainly grasslands), light woodlands and forests (Pearce et al., <span>2023</span>) that held a diverse community of large herbivorous mammals (Davoli et al., <span>2024</span>; Svenning et al., <span>2024</span>). This is congruent with the fact that many temperate woody plants are light-demanding species that are often restricted to forest edges because they fail to regenerate in the shaded forest interiors (Vera, <span>2000</span>). Moreover, many light-demanding plants are thorny (e.g. <i>Berberis vulgaris</i>, <i>Crataegus</i> spp., <i>Prunus spinosa</i>, <i>Rosa</i> spp., <i>Rubus</i> spp. and <i>Ulex europaeus</i>) or have prickly leaves (e.g. <i>Ilex aquifolium</i> and <i>Juniperus</i> spp.). These are defensive traits a","PeriodicalId":191,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Ecology","volume":"28 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2024-12-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142793557","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}
Chao Wang, Yan Geng, Jordi Sardans, Josep Peñuelas, Jin-Sheng He
{"title":"Coordinated variation in elemental composition and morphology in leaves, but independence in roots across Chinese grasslands","authors":"Chao Wang, Yan Geng, Jordi Sardans, Josep Peñuelas, Jin-Sheng He","doi":"10.1111/1365-2745.14464","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.14464","url":null,"abstract":"<h2> CONFLICT OF INTEREST STATEMENT</h2>\u0000<p>All authors declare no conflict of interest.</p>","PeriodicalId":191,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Ecology","volume":"9 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2024-12-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142793556","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}