How Seed Shape and Buoyancy Power an Invasive Vine’s River Journey
New research shows that the invasive vine Echinocystis lobata produces two functionally distinct seed types whose interacting traits determine how ...
Tag: functional traits
Leaf Trait Networks Reveal Sonneratia apetala’s Invasion Strategy
A new study reveals that the invasive success of Sonneratia apetala in Chinese mangroves is driven by a centralized-efficient leaf ...
One Term, Fourteen Metrics: Why Water Use Efficiency Means Different Things to Different Scientists
A new review catalogues fourteen conflicting definitions of water use efficiency and proposes a harmonized framework to make the widely ...
Mud-Dwelling Seafloor Animals Quietly Steer Carbon Storage in the North Sea
A large-scale survey of the southeastern North Sea's muddy seafloor shows that environmental gradients shape benthic communities in ways that ...
Ancient DNA Reveals 24,000 Years of Arctic Plants Turning From Helpers Into Rivals
Sedimentary ancient DNA from nine Siberian and Alaskan lakes shows that Arctic plant communities shifted from facilitation to competition as ...
Grasslands on a Knife Edge: Leaf Water Trade-Offs Govern Steppe Ecosystems
A large-scale survey of 306 sites on the Mongolian Plateau shows that a community-wide trade-off between leaf hydraulic efficiency and ...
New Metric Predicts How Much Biodiversity a Landscape Could Actually Support
Researchers propose Functional Trait Capacity, a mechanistic metric that predicts how much biodiversity a landscape could sustain under different management, ...
Fifteen Years Above the Canopy Reveal Hidden Rhythms of Australia’s Rainforest Trees
A 15-year canopy survey of 132 tree species in Australia's Wet Tropics reveals wet-season flowering, dry-season fruiting, and trait-driven shifts ...
Domestication May Have Blunted Pepper’s Intercropping Edge With Maize
A new Plant and Soil study finds that domesticated pepper varieties lose the root trait plasticity that helps wild ancestors ...
Tiny Seafloor Worms Emerge as Surprising Players in the Ocean Plastic Mystery
New microcosm experiments show that marine nematodes sequester microplastics only at very high particle densities, with opportunistic non-selective feeders doing ...
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Mothers who receive childcare support from maternal grandparents show more parental warmth, finds NTU Singapore study
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University of Seville Breaks 120-Year-Old Mystery, Revises a Key Einstein Concept
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Bee body mass, pathogens and local climate influence heat tolerance
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Researchers record first-ever images and data of a shark experiencing a boat strike
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Groundbreaking Clinical Trial Reveals Lubiprostone Enhances Kidney Function
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