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  • 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

  • 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

  • Understanding patterns in woody plant trait relationships and trade-offs is challenging. Here, by applying machine learning and data imputation methods to a global database of georeferenced trait measurements, the authors unravel key relationships in tree functional traits at the global scale.

    • Daniel S. Maynard
    • Lalasia Bialic-Murphy
    • Thomas W. Crowther
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 13, P: 1-12

  • 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

  • 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

  • It is widely perceived how research institutes have been adopting the discourse of champions of diversity, inclusion, and equity (DEI) in recent years. Despite progress in diversity and inclusion in the academic environment, we highlight here that nothing or, at very best, little work has been done to overcome the scientific labor division in academic research that promotes neocolonial practices in academic recognition and jeopardizes equity. In this piece, we bring secondary data that reinforce biased patterns in academic recognition between Global North and South (geographical markers and citation bias), and propose three actions that should be adopted by researchers, research institutes, journals, and scientific societies from the Global North that allows for a fairer recognition of the academic expertise produced by the Global South.

    • Gabriel Nakamura
    • Bruno Eleres Soares
    • Leandro Duarte
    Comments & OpinionOpen Access
    npj Biodiversity
    Volume: 2, P: 1-4