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Plant diversity dynamics over space and time in a warming Arctic (2025)
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García Criado, M., Myers-Smith, I. H., Bjorkman, A. D., Elmendorf, S. C., Normand, S., Aastrup, P., Aerts, R., Alatalo, J. M., Baeten, L., Björk, R. G., Björkman, M. P., Boulanger-Lapointe, N., Butler, E. E., Cooper, E. J., Cornelissen, J. H. C., Daskalova, G. N., Fadrique, B., Forbes, B. C., Henry, G. H., Hollister, R. D., …Vellend, M. (2025). Plant diversity dynamics over space and time in a warming Arctic. Nature, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-08946-8

The Arctic is warming four times faster than the global average1 and plant communities are responding through shifts in species abundance, composition and distribution2, 3–4. However, the direction and magnitude of local changes in plant diversity in... Read More about Plant diversity dynamics over space and time in a warming Arctic.

Functional Signatures of Surface Pollen and Vegetation Are Broadly Similar: Good News for Past Reconstructions of Vegetation (2025)
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Dugerdil, L., Peyron, O., Violle, C., Joannin, S., Ménot, G., Denelle, P., Bruelheide, H., Chytrý, M., Field, R., Hatim, M. Z., Gholizadeh, H., Dolezal, J., Pillar, V. D., Shaltout, K. H., Schrodt, F., & Garnier, E. (2025). Functional Signatures of Surface Pollen and Vegetation Are Broadly Similar: Good News for Past Reconstructions of Vegetation. Journal of Biogeography, 52(5), Article e15100. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.15100

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Pollen assemblages are widely used to infer paleoenvironment features, aiming at reconstructing both past climates and biomes. However, the functional link between environmental conditions and pollen assemblages is not straightforward and requir... Read More about Functional Signatures of Surface Pollen and Vegetation Are Broadly Similar: Good News for Past Reconstructions of Vegetation.

Global decoupling of functional and phylogenetic diversity in plant communities (2024)
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Hähn, G. J. A., Damasceno, G., Alvarez-Davila, E., Aubin, I., Bauters, M., Bergmeier, E., Biurrun, I., Bjorkman, A. D., Bonari, G., Botta-Dukát, Z., Campos, J. A., Čarni, A., Chytrý, M., Ćušterevska, R., de Gasper, A. L., De Sanctis, M., Dengler, J., Dolezal, J., El-Sheikh, M. A., Finckh, M., …Bruelheide, H. (2024). Global decoupling of functional and phylogenetic diversity in plant communities. Nature Ecology and Evolution, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-024-02589-0

Plant communities are composed of species that differ both in functional traits and evolutionary histories. As species’ functional traits partly result from their individual evolutionary history, we expect the functional diversity of communities to i... Read More about Global decoupling of functional and phylogenetic diversity in plant communities.

What is the Relationship Between Plant Trait Diversity and Geodiversity? A Plot‐Based, Pan‐European Analysis (2024)
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Vernham, G., Bailey, J., Field, R., & Schrodt, F. (2024). What is the Relationship Between Plant Trait Diversity and Geodiversity? A Plot‐Based, Pan‐European Analysis. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 33(11), Article e13904. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13904

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Heterogeneity of the Earth's abiotic surface and subsurface (geodiversity) is increasingly recognised as an important driver of biodiversity. Theoretically, species' traits should match to abiotic conditions in the local environment. Here, we te... Read More about What is the Relationship Between Plant Trait Diversity and Geodiversity? A Plot‐Based, Pan‐European Analysis.

The status and future of essential geodiversity variables (2024)
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Schrodt, F., Vernham, G., Bailey, J., Field, R., Gordon, J. E., Gray, M., Hjort, J., Hoorn, C., Hunter Jr., M. L., Larwood, J., Lausch, A., Monge-Ganuzas, M., Miller, S., van Ree, D., Seijmonsbergen, A. C., Zarnetske, P. L., & Kissling, W. D. (2024). The status and future of essential geodiversity variables. Philosophical Transactions A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 382(2269), Article 20230052. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2023.0052

Rapid environmental change, natural resource overconsumption and increasing concerns about ecological sustainability have led to the development of 'Essential Variables' (EVs). EVs are harmonized data products to inform policy and to enable effective... Read More about The status and future of essential geodiversity variables.

Widespread shifts in body size within populations and assemblages (2023)
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Martins, I. S., Schrodt, F., Blowes, S. A., Bates, A. E., Bjorkman, A. D., Brambilla, V., Carvajal-Quintero, J., Chow, C. F. Y., Daskalova, G. N., Edwards, K., Eisenhauer, N., Field, R., Fontrodona-Eslava, A., Henn, J. J., van Klink, R., Madin, J. S., Magurran, A. E., McWilliam, M., Moyes, F., Pugh, B., …Dornelas, M. (2023). Widespread shifts in body size within populations and assemblages. Science, 381(6662), 1067-1071. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adg6006

Biotic responses to global change include directional shifts in organismal traits. Body size, an integrative trait that determines demographic rates and ecosystem functions, is thought to be shrinking in the Anthropocene. Here, we assessed the preval... Read More about Widespread shifts in body size within populations and assemblages.

Leaf metabolic traits reveal hidden dimensions of plant form and function (2023)
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Walker, T. W. N., Schrodt, F., Allard, P.-M., Defossez, E., Jassey, V. E. J., Schuman, M. C., Alexander, J. M., Baines, O., Baldy, V., Bardgett, R. D., Capdevila, P., Coley, P. D., van Dam, N. M., David, B., Descombes, P., Endara, M.-J., Fernandez, C., Forrister, D., Gargallo-Garriga, A., Glauser, G., …Peñuelas, J. (2023). Leaf metabolic traits reveal hidden dimensions of plant form and function. Science Advances, 9(35), Article eadi402. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adi4029

The metabolome is the biochemical basis of plant form and function, but we know little about its macroecological variation across the plant kingdom. Here, we used the plant functional trait concept to interpret leaf metabolome variation among 457 tro... Read More about Leaf metabolic traits reveal hidden dimensions of plant form and function.

Applying the concept of niche breadth to understand urban tree mortality in the UK (2023)
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Kim, E. H., Hitchmough, J. D., Cameron, R. W., Schrodt, F., Martin, K. W., & Cubey, R. (2023). Applying the concept of niche breadth to understand urban tree mortality in the UK. Science of the Total Environment, 902, Article 166304. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.166304

Accelerated climate change has raised concerns about heightened vulnerability of urban trees, spurring the need to reevaluate their suitability. The urgency has also driven the widespread application of climatic niche-based models. In particular, the... Read More about Applying the concept of niche breadth to understand urban tree mortality in the UK.

Effects of climate change on the distribution of plant species and plant functional strategies on the Canary Islands (2023)
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Hanz, D. M., Cutts, V., Barajas‐Barbosa, M. P., Algar, A., Beierkuhnlein, C., Collart, F., Fernández‐Palacios, J. M., Field, R., Karger, D. N., Kienle, D. R., Kreft, H., Patiño, J., Schrodt, F., Steinbauer, M. J., Weigelt, P., & Irl, S. D. H. (2023). Effects of climate change on the distribution of plant species and plant functional strategies on the Canary Islands. Diversity and Distributions, 29(9), 1157-1171. https://doi.org/10.1111/ddi.13750

Aim: Oceanic islands possess unique floras with high proportions of endemic species. Island floras are expected to be severely affected by changing climatic conditions as species on islands have limited distribution ranges and small population sizes... Read More about Effects of climate change on the distribution of plant species and plant functional strategies on the Canary Islands.

Imputing missing data in plant traits: A guide to improve gap‐filling (2023)
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Joswig, J. S., Kattge, J., Kraemer, G., Mahecha, M. D., Rüger, N., Schaepman, M. E., Schrodt, F., & Schuman, M. C. (2023). Imputing missing data in plant traits: A guide to improve gap‐filling. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 32(8), 1395-1408. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13695

Aim: Globally distributed plant trait data are increasingly used to understand relationships between biodiversity and ecosystem processes. However, global trait databases are sparse because they are compiled from many, mostly small databases. This sp... Read More about Imputing missing data in plant traits: A guide to improve gap‐filling.