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Yuguang Ke et al. assessed the effects of the ratio of inorganic nitrogen to organic nitrogen on the temporal stability of plant community productivity in a temperate meadow #Grassland.

#DominantSpecies | #NitrogenDeposition | #NitrogenComposition

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December 2, 2025 at 1:38 PM

Journal of Plant Ecology

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Li-Li Zheng et al. assessed the effects of #SoilNutrientHeterogeneity on plant productivity in natural communities ( #AlpineGrassland on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau).

#NutrientAvailability | #PatchContrast | #PatchScale | #ResourceHeterogeneity

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December 2, 2025 at 1:32 PM

Journal of Plant Ecology

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【🎉Latest accepted article】
Nitrogen form governs nutrient retention and plant uptake in #CoralIslandSoils: Evidence from a 15N-tracing experiment

#CoralSandSoils | #FertilizationStrategy | #Soil–plantInteractions | #CoastalEcosystems

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December 1, 2025 at 12:09 PM

Journal of Plant Ecology

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Fang-Lei Gao et al. explored the effects of the #GroundwaterDepth on the characteristics of #TamarixChinensis shrub communities in the Yellow River Delta.

#SoilSalinity | #PlantDiversity | #CoastalTidalFlats

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November 30, 2025 at 12:05 PM

Journal of Plant Ecology

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Zhilong Zhao et al. explored how intraspecific differentiation and phenotypic plasticity promote the process of #InvasivePlant (Xanthium italicum) invasion of habitats.

#BiologicalInvasion | #CommonGarden | #NitrogenAddition | #PlasticityResponse

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November 30, 2025 at 11:31 AM

Journal of Plant Ecology

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Yuxin Huang et al. explored global patterns and driving factors of non-leaf litter carbon quality across #PlantFunctionalTypes and environments.

#TotalCarbon | #Lignocellulose | #GeographicalFeature | #Climate | #SoilProperties | #Decomposition

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November 29, 2025 at 2:04 PM

Journal of Plant Ecology

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Chongyu Yan et al. explored biophysical controls on the interannual variation in #CarbonFluxes of a natural oak forest.

#EddyCovariance | #EnvironmentFactors | #Phenology | #InterannualVariability

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November 29, 2025 at 2:00 PM

Journal of Plant Ecology

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The drivers and microbial mechanisms underlying seasonal variations in denitrification across #Elevations

Place: #AlpineForestMountainEcosystems

Results:
1️⃣Denitrification:
①Altitude⬆️, Denitrification⬇️
②Wet season > Dry season
2️⃣Dominant genus: Bradyrhizobium

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Classes of the dominant nirS genes (a) and genera of the dominant nirK (b) and nosZ (c) genes.

November 28, 2025 at 7:00 AM

Journal of Plant Ecology

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⭐ The relationships between alpine grasslands plants🌳 and their rhizobacteria🦠

Plants:
Poa Linn & Stipa Linn

#CoreRhizobacteria:
1️⃣P. Linn: r-strategists➡️prioritizes rapid resource acquisition
2️⃣S. Linn: K-strategists➡️stress tolerance

#DominantGrass | #FunctionalPredictions

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Conceptual figure showing the life-history strategies of grasses and core rhizobacteria. In networks, blue links represents positive and red links represents negative.

November 28, 2025 at 6:50 AM

Journal of Plant Ecology

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Yushu Zhang examined the influences of #TillageDisturbance and #NutrientEnrichment on #PlantCommunities, #SoilMicrobialCommunities, and #CarbonMineralization.

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November 27, 2025 at 8:17 AM

Journal of Plant Ecology

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Lifeng Zhou et al. examined how herbivory-mediated ( #HerbivorousInsects: Ophraella communa) changes in plant chemistry ( #AmbrosiaArtemisiifolia) affect #PhyllosphereFungalCommunity.

#SpeciesDiversity | #Plant-insect-microbeInteractions

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November 27, 2025 at 8:09 AM

Journal of Plant Ecology

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💻 Unraveling vital rates in the seedling-to-sapling transition via #PlantTraitNetworks in a subtropical forest

Results:
1️⃣Seedlings➡️Saplings: 17–81 years;
2️⃣Transition time⬆️, #NetworkCentralization⬇️;

#DemographicProgressModel | #PassageTime |

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Seedling-to-sapling passage time and 5-year survival of 26 focal species.

November 26, 2025 at 6:27 AM

Journal of Plant Ecology

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Waste ➡️ Soil nutrients & plant growth

Plant species:
1️⃣Gossypium hirsutum
2️⃣Glycine max
3️⃣Solanum nigrum
4️⃣Medicago sativa

Microbe: #Phosphorus-solubilizingBacteria

Waste: coal gangue＋straw

#AgriculturalWaste | #IndustrialWaste | #SoilPhosphorus | #SoilSilicon

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November 26, 2025 at 6:10 AM

Journal of Plant Ecology

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🔎 The changes of #CommunityInvasibility (CI) along #LatitudinalGradient and its key driving factors

Results:
1️⃣latitude⬆️, CI⬆️
2️⃣Climate ➡️ native species diversity ➡️ CI

#DiversityResistance | #EnvironmentalFiltering | #InvasionEcology

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Field survey sites in southeastern China (a) and the phylogenetic tree of all investigated species (b).

November 25, 2025 at 6:52 AM

Journal of Plant Ecology

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#Shrubland carbon storage in northern China ➡️ Climate & plant community & soil traits

Results:
1️⃣Plant community #Richness➡️ Vegetation #CarbonDensity (CD)
2️⃣Shrub #Diversity➡️ Litter CD
3️⃣Total annual sunshine & soil #TotalPhosphorusContent➡️ Soil CD

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Variation partitioning in ecosystem carbon density.

November 25, 2025 at 6:43 AM

Journal of Plant Ecology

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Lloyd W Morrison et al. described five key metrics of #ObserverError (i.e. imprecision between observers), how they are calculated, and how they can be reported and interpreted.

#CoverEstimation | #DoubleSampling | #NonsamplingError

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Pseudo-turnover values from various habitat types.

November 23, 2025 at 1:48 PM

Journal of Plant Ecology

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Different #Mowing intensities ➡️ #MowingTolerance & The mechanism of #GrowthAndReproductiveTraits

Objects: #ElymusSpecies

Results:
Mowing stage & Forage species ➡️ Adaptive changes in growth and reproductive traits ➡️ Tolerance mechanisms

#Qinghai–TibetanPlateau

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Effects of different mowing treatment on the reproductive traits of five Elymus species during the jointing, booting, and flowering stages.

November 22, 2025 at 2:29 PM

Journal of Plant Ecology

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[ #Grazing management (GM)] Plant & Soil microbial communities ➡️ Ecosystem multifunctionality (EMF)

Results:
1️⃣GM⬆️, plant diversity & EMF⬇️;
2️⃣Heavy GM altered the abundance of some plants and #MicrobialCommunities;

#Biodiversity | #EcosystemFunction | #Grassland

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Correlations of plant and microbial diversity and community composition with ecosystem multifunctionality under different grazing intensities across three grassland types.

November 22, 2025 at 2:16 PM

Journal of Plant Ecology

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Jianyong Wang et al. conducted experiments on the Songnen grassland, testing the combined effects of #MultipleGlobalChangeFactors on #GrasslandEcosystems.

Results:
Grasslands may stability⬇️ and degrade⬆️ in response to multiple co-occurring GCFs.

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Effects of single and multiple global change factors (GCFs) on (a) species richness, (b) Shannon-Wiener diversity index, (c) Simpson's diversity index, and (d) Evenness in the Songnen grassland in northeastern China.

November 19, 2025 at 3:48 PM

Journal of Plant Ecology

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💡Ecological theory matters when linking plant functional traits and ecosystem carbon cycles

⭐ Type: Commentary
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