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Murendeni Kwinda, Stefan John Siebert, Helga Van Coller and Tlou Samuel Masehela
Weed responses in disturbance-prone agroecosystems are linked to specific plant traits that enable their persistence. Understanding how weeds adapt to thrive in these systems in response to herbicide application is important for farmers to improve weed m...
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Alexandru Matie?, Cornel Negru?ier, Oana Ro?ca Mare, Olimpia Smaranda Minta?, Gabriela Zanc Savan, Antonia Cristina Maria Odagiu, Luiza Andronie and Ioan Pacurar
The growing demand for nutritious foods has spurred investigations into alternative sources of nutrition beyond traditional options. For this reason, the present study approaches amaranth, which is a plant with high nutritional potential. Based on the un...
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Anna Marino, Francesca Bona, Stefano Fenoglio and Tiziano Bo
Of all the environmental elements that influence the biological communities of rivers, water flow characteristics are undoubtedly the most important. Unfortunately, natural hydrological characteristics are increasingly threatened by human activities, esp...
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Irina I. Volkova, Igor V. Volkov, Yana A. Morozova, Viktor A. Nikitkin, Evgenia K. Vishnyakova and Nina P. Mironycheva-Tokareva
Functional traits are a set of characteristics that are expressed in the phenotype of an individual organism as a response to the environment and their impact on the ecosystem?s properties. They are positioned at the crossroads between the response and i...
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Alessio Marrone, Maria Cristina Mangano, Alan Deidun, Manuel Berlino and Gianluca Sarà
Habitat fragmentation (HF) is an ecological process, which is potentially also one of the main causes of diversity loss. Many studies have debated the best tools to adopt for assessing the effects of HF. The traditional application of biodiversity metric...
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Cristian Andrei Murgu and Geta Rî?noveanu
Riparian predatory arthropods represent one of the main trophic links between lotic and terrestrial ecosystems along riverine landscapes. The use of the trait-based approach promises to enhance our understanding of how these predatory communities interac...
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Valentina Esposito, Rocco Auriemma, Cinzia De Vittor, Federica Relitti, Lidia Urbini, Martina Kralj and Maria Cristina Gambi
Ocean acidification (OA), one of the main climate-change-related stressors linked to increasing CO2 concentration in the atmosphere, is considered an important threat to marine biodiversity and habitats. Studies on CO2-vents systems, naturally acidified ...
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Anna Visconti, Rossana Caroni, Ruth Rawcliffe, Amedeo Fadda, Roberta Piscia and Marina Manca
Functional-based approaches are increasingly being used to define the functional diversity of aquatic ecosystems. In this study, we proposed the use of d13C and d15N stable isotopes as a proxy of zooplankton functional traits in Lake Maggiore, a large, d...
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Julia I. Chapman and Ryan W. McEwan
Identifying the drivers of community assembly has long been a central goal in ecology, and the development of functional diversity indices has provided a new way of detecting the influence of environmental gradients on biotic communities. For an old-grow...
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Marie Dury, Lenni Mertens, Adeline Fayolle, Hans Verbeeck, Alain Hambuckers and Louis François
African tropical ecosystems and the services they provide to human society suffer from an increasing combined pressure of land use and climate change. How individual tropical tree species respond to climate change remains relatively unknown. In this stud...
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