Category: Linking to elsewhere

Elevational shifts in tree community composition in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest related to climate change

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Rodrigo Scarton Bergamin, Vinicius Bastazini and their colleagues summarized their findings from a recent paper published in the Journal of Vegetation Science (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jvs.13289), revealing that climate-driven species migration patterns and community composition changes in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest are highly variable.…

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Species richness of plant communities: the rich gets richer and the poor gets poorer?

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Prepared by Francesco Maria Sabatini

Survey of a vegetation plot in a dry grassland in Gran Sasso National Park (Central Italy). Photo credit: F.M. Sabatini.

This Linking to elsewhere post is related to the article “Global patterns of vascular plant alpha diversity”, published by Francesco Maria Sabatini and colleagues in Nature Communications (https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-32063-z…

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Linking functional diversity, trait composition, invasion, and environmental drivers in boreal wetland plant assemblages

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Brandon Allen and his colleagues summarized the results from a recent paper in the Journal of Vegetation Science (https://doi.org/10.1111/jvs.13073) illustrating the complex relationships between functional diversity, terrestrial invaders, and the surrounding environment in boreal wetlands. Read more about these relationships at the ABMI blog.…

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Savannah trees buffer herbaceous plant biomass against wild and domestic herbivores

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Dr Stuart Smith summarizes the results of a recent paper in the Applied Vegetation Science (https://doi.org/10.1111/avsc.12472) that shows specialist grass species underneath trees are important for maintaining herbaceous biomass with increasing herbivore pressure and livestock dominance in African savannahs.…

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