F. de Bello

"Flower power": how flowering affects spectral diversity metrics and their relationship with plant diversity

This study evaluates how flowering affects spectral diversity metrics and their relationship with plant diversity in grasslands, finding significant but low-explained variance in the link when using categorical metrics.

Disturbance increases functional diversity but decreases phylogenetic diversity of an arboreal tropical ant community

This study examines how forest disturbance affects functional and phylogenetic diversity in arboreal ant communities, finding increased functional diversity in secondary forests despite lower phylogenetic diversity.

Phenotypic diversity created by a transposable element increases productivity and resistance to competitors in plant populations

This study shows that transposable element diversity in Arabidopsis thaliana increases population productivity and reduces competitor performance.

LOTVS: a global collection of permanent vegetation plots

LOTVS provides a global collection of vegetation time-series from permanent plots to study ecological changes over time.

Mycorrhizal symbiosis alleviates plant drought stress within and across plant generations via plasticity

This study shows that mycorrhizal symbiosis induces both within- and transgenerational phenotypic plasticity in plants under drought stress, improving their ability to cope with environmental stress.

Mapping extinction risk in the global functional spectra across the tree of life

The paper maps extinction risk across global functional spectra of species, finding that larger, slower-living species are more threatened and their loss would cause significant reorganization in ecological strategies.