Paul Jarvis, FRS, FRSE: plant ecologist who showed the link between forests and the atmosphere by Mencuccini M

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Combining botanical collections and ecological data to better describe plant community diversity. by Christina Alba, Richard Levy, Rebecca Hufft

“…Because of these different disciplinary histories and research goals, floristic botanists and plant ecologists often remain siloed in their work. Here, using a case study from an urban greenway in Colorado, USA, we illustrate that the collections-based, opportunistic sampling of floristic botanists is highly complementary to the transect- or plot-based sampling of plant ecologists. …”
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Using a mega-phylogeny of seed plants to test for non-random patterns of areal-types across the Chinese tree of life by Rong Li

“…Over the past decade, botanists and plant ecologists have increasingly sought to quantify phylogenetic signal in ecological traits to help inform their inferences regarding the mechanisms driving plant assemblages. …”
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Conceptions of Landscape-Ecological Relevance Emerged in the Czech Botany during the Second Half of Twentieth Century by Kovář Pavel

“…This paper summarizes those substantial theoretical concepts or methods for applications within interdisciplinary or practical uses published by Czech autors (geobotanists = ecological botanists, plant ecologists and ecophysiologists) during the second half of the 20th century, that were internationally cited. …”
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Seeing the forest for the genes: Using metagenomics to infer the aggregated traits of microbial communities by Noah eFierer, Albert eBarberan, Daniel eLaughlin

“…Microbial ecologists could benefit by borrowing the concept of community-aggregated traits (CATs) from plant ecologists to glean more insight from the ever-increasing amount of metagenomic data being generated. …”
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Data on terrestrial ferns species richness, abundance, and functional traits in Mashpi Rainforest Biodiversity Reserve in the Ecuadorian Chocó by Laura Salazar, Paola Peña, Renato Segura, Mateo Roldán

“…These data can be useful for plant ecologists to assess future changes of fern species composition and leaf functional traits of ferns caused by climate change and other threats at the study area.…”
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Implications of clonality for ageing research by Salguero-Gomez, R

“…Yet, increasing fertility and survival with age are nothing new to plant ecologists, among whom it is common knowledge that senescence is not universal. …”

Enough Is Enough? Searching for the Optimal Sample Size to Monitor European Habitats: A Case Study from Coastal Sand Dunes by Simona Maccherini, Giovanni Bacaro, Enrico Tordoni, Andrea Bertacchi, Paolo Castagnini, Bruno Foggi, Matilde Gennai, Michele Mugnai, Simona Sarmati, Claudia Angiolini

“…The proposed methodological approach can be used to develop cost-effective monitoring programs and it can be useful for plant ecologists and biodiversity managers for assessing ecosystem health and changes.…”
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Animal ecosystem engineers modulate the diversity-invasibility relationship. by Nico Eisenhauer, Alexandru Milcu, Alexander C W Sabais, Stefan Scheu

“…Overall, the results document that fundamental processes in plant communities like plant seed burial and invader establishment are modulated by soil fauna calling for closer cooperation between soil animal and plant ecologists.…”
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Asymmetric dispersal and colonization success of Amazonian plant-ants queens. by Emilio M Bruna, Thiago J Izzo, Brian D Inouye, Maria Uriarte, Heraldo L Vasconcelos

“…However, little is known about the relative dispersal ability of queens competing for access to the same host plants.We used empirical data and inverse modeling--a technique developed by plant ecologists to model seed dispersal--to quantify and compare the dispersal kernels of queens from three Amazonian ant species that compete for access to host-plants. …”
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Hierarchical organization of a Sardinian sand dune plant community by Valentina Cusseddu, Giulia Ceccherelli, Mark Bertness

“…Coastal sand dunes have attracted the attention of plant ecologists for over a century, but they have largely relied on correlations to explain dune plant community organization. …”
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Resource availability and repeated defoliation mediate compensatory growth in trembling aspen (Populus tremuloides) seedlings by Nadir Erbilgin, David A. Galvez, Bin Zhang, Ahmed Najar

“…Plant ecologists have debated the mechanisms used by plants to cope with the impact of herbivore damage. …”
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A modified trait‐based framework for assessing the resilience of ecosystem services provided by coral reef communities by Bruno S. Carturan, Lael Parrott, Jason Pither

“…Building on analogous efforts by plant ecologists, we propose a trait‐based framework that aims to predict the resistance and recovery of coral ecosystem services against both pulse and press disturbances. …”
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Low‐cost observations and experiments return a high value in plant phenology research by Caitlin McDonough MacKenzie, Amanda S. Gallinat, Lucy Zipf

“…Plant ecologists in the Anthropocene are tasked with documenting, interpreting, and predicting how plants respond to environmental change. …”
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Response of Leaf Traits of Eastern Qinghai-Tibetan Broad-Leaved Woody Plants to Climatic Factors by Xiaomei Kang, Yanan Li, Jieyang Zhou, Shiting Zhang, Chenxi Li, Juhong Wang, Wei Liu, Wei Qi

“…Plant ecologists have long been interested in quantifying how leaf traits vary with climate factors, but there is a paucity of knowledge on these relationships given a large number of the relevant leaf traits and climate factors to be considered. …”
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A test of balanced fitness limitations theory: Pollen limitation in plants by Jay A. Rosenheim, Neal M. Williams, Joshua M. Rapp, Sebastian J. Schreiber

“…Strong within‐species, between‐population variation in the expression of pollen limitation makes the quantification of mean pollen limitation difficult. We urge plant ecologists to conduct more studies of pollen limitation using whole‐plant pollen supplementation to produce a richer comparative dataset that would support a more robust test of the balanced limitations hypothesis.…”
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The importance of genetic diversity for the translocation of eight threatened plant species into the wild by Deborah Schäfer, Hugo Vincent, Markus Fischer, Anne Kempel

“…We therefore recommend close collaborations between experimental plant ecologists, field botanists and conservation practitioners in future translocations of threatened species.…”
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Abrupt environmental changes drive shifts in tree-grass interaction outcomes by Jeffers, E, Bonsall, M, Brooks, S, Willis, K

“…The approach described here allows plant ecologists to test hypotheses of plant-plant interactions over successional time scales for long-lived species and thus can lead to new knowledge about the structural role of these interactions in community dynamics.…”

Abrupt environmental changes drive shifts in tree-grass interaction outcomes by Jeffers, E, Bonsall, M, Brooks, S, Willis, K

“…The approach described here allows plant ecologists to test hypotheses of plant-plant interactions over successional time scales for long-lived species and thus can lead to new knowledge about the structural role of these interactions in community dynamics. © 2011 The Authors. …”

Is invasion science moving towards agreed standards? The influence of selected frameworks by John R. U. Wilson, Arunava Datta, Heidi Hirsch, Jan-Hendrik Keet, Tumeka Mbobo, Khensani V. Nkuna, Mlungele M. Nsikani, Petr Pyšek, David M. Richardson, Tsungai A. Zengeya, Sabrina Kumschick

“…For this to be achieved, we argue that frameworks in invasion science need to be revised or adapted to particular contexts in response to the needs and experiences of users (e.g., so they are relevant to pathologists, plant ecologists, and practitioners), the standards should be easier to apply in practice (e.g., through the development of guidelines for management), and there should be incentives for their usage (e.g., recognition for completing an EICAT assessment).…”
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