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  • The hypothesis that species are most abundant at the centre of their geographic range has been widely debated. Here, by analysing over 3,600 species, the authors find that this pattern is generally not true for animals but does occur in some plant groups, being influenced by dispersal traits and evolution.

    • Connor T. Panter
    • Stephan Kambach
    • Franziska Schrodt
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 16, P: 1-15

  • An expert-elicitation process identifies current methodological barriers for monitoring terrestrial biodiversity, and how technological and procedural development of robotic and autonomous systems may contribute to overcoming these challenges.

    • Stephen Pringle
    • Martin Dallimer
    • Zoe G. Davies
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Ecology & Evolution
    Volume: 9, P: 1031-1042

  • Warming temperatures and interactions between plants are the main drivers of changes in Arctic plant communities in response to climate change, and there is no evidence of overall biotic homogenization.

    • Mariana García Criado
    • Isla H. Myers-Smith
    • Mark Vellend
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature
    Volume: 642, P: 653-661

  • Functional diversity and phylogenetic diversity are expected to be positively correlated. Here the authors show that the covariation between these metrics in vascular plant communities around the world is often either inconsistent or negative.

    • Georg J. A. Hähn
    • Gabriella Damasceno
    • Helge Bruelheide
    Research
    Nature Ecology & Evolution
    Volume: 9, P: 237-248

  • Scrutinizing the empirical evidence for bidirectional trade-offs in fine root traits, the authors show that while these are important in explaining species occurrences along broad temperature and water availability gradients, unidirectional benefits are prevalent.

    • Daniel C. Laughlin
    • Liesje Mommer
    • Alexandra Weigelt
    Research
    Nature Ecology & Evolution
    Volume: 5, P: 1123-1134

  • The authors investigate the broad-scale climatological and soil properties that co-vary with major axes of plant functional traits. They find that variation in plant size is attributed to latitudinal gradients in water or energy limitation, while variation in leaf economics traits is attributed to both climate and soil fertility including their interaction.

    • Julia S. Joswig
    • Christian Wirth
    • Miguel D. Mahecha
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Ecology & Evolution
    Volume: 6, P: 36-50

  • Global patterns of regional plant diversity are relatively well known, but whether they hold for local communities is debated. This study created multi-grain global maps of alpha diversity for vascular plants to provide a nuanced understanding of plant diversity hotspots and improve predictions of global change effects on biodiversity.

    • Francesco Maria Sabatini
    • Borja Jiménez-Alfaro
    • Helge Bruelheide
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 13, P: 1-16

  • Although plant functional trait combinations reflect ecological trade-offs at the species level, little is known about how this translates to whole communities. Here, the authors show that global trait composition is captured by two main dimensions that are only weakly related to macro-environmental drivers.

    • Helge Bruelheide
    • Jürgen Dengler
    • Ute Jandt
    Research
    Nature Ecology & Evolution
    Volume: 2, P: 1906-1917

  • The world's ecosystems are losing biodiversity fast. A satellite mission designed to track changes in plant functional diversity around the globe could deepen our understanding of the pace and consequences of this change, and how to manage it.

    • Walter Jetz
    • Jeannine Cavender-Bares
    • Susan L. Ustin
    Comments & Opinion
    Nature Plants
    Volume: 2, P: 1-5