Seed dispersal patterns at both species and community levels are widely discussed, but evidence from literature is often limited, especially for natural grasslands. Therefore, we investigated seed dispersal patterns in a natural grassland in Argentina to estimate the reliability of adjacent fields as propagule sources for target species (i.e., native forage species). We installed two different seed trap types (pot and sticky)...

Despite their critical role in shaping Alpine and non-Alpine ecosystems, the specific impacts of extreme flood events on riparian vegetation remain poorly understood. In Alpine habitats, such events induce rapid channel reworking, entailing abrupt sediment redistribution and changes in channel width, which trigger immediate vegetation responses. This review employed distinct search syntaxes across Scopus, Web of Science (WoS),...

The quantification of tree growth and carbon storage over time is an important task for sustainable forest management and carbon sequestration projects. For the South African short-rotation Pinus radiata (D. Don) forests, this knowledge is lacking. We developed allometric equations and compared the estimated weights to previously published biomass studies and we used Dirichlet Regression (DR) modelling to ensure additivity of...

The present study examined Pinus sylvestris L. growth responses to climatic variations and its relationship with intrinsic water-use efficiency (iWUE) across a water availability gradient and also in pure P. sylvestris and P. sylvestris -Quercus species mixed forests. Study sites were selected in the Mediterranean, temperate, and temperate continental climates in Spain, Italy, and Poland, respectively. A combined tree-ring den...

As an essential nutrient, Nitrogen (N) availability is fundamental in evaluating forest productivity, and as such, understanding the effects of changing atmospheric N inputs in forest ecosystems is of high significance. While most field experiments have been employing ground fertilization as a method to simulate N deposition, two experimental forest sites in Italy have adopted the more advanced canopy N application approach. H...

Mountain biota survived the Quaternary cold stages most probably in peripheral refugia and/or ice‐free peaks within ice‐sheets (nunataks). While survival in peripheral refugia has been broadly demonstrated, evidence for nunatak refugia is still scarce. We generated RADseq data from three mountain plant species occurring at different elevations in the southeastern European Alps to investigate the role of different glacial refug...

Trait‐based ecology has already revealed main independent axes of trait variation defining trait spaces that summarize plant adaptive strategies, but often ignoring intraspecific trait variability (ITV). By using empirical ITV‐level data for two independent dimensions of leaf form and function and 167 species across five habitat types (coastal dunes, forests, grasslands, heathlands, wetlands) in the Italian peninsula, we found...

Mountain agroecosystems in Latin America provide multiple ecosystem functions (EFs) and products from global to local scales, particularly for the rural communities who depend on them. Agroforestry has been proposed as a climate‐smart farming strategy throughout much of the region to help conserve biodiversity and enhance multiple EFs, especially in mountainous regions. However, large‐scale synthesis on the potential of agrofo...

During the last decades, an ongoing spread of broad-leaved evergreen laurophyllous species has been reported for forests of Southern Europe. Several factors were suggested as the main drivers of the phenomenon, namely global warming, land-use change, evolutionary history, and increase in atmospheric CO 2 . Among laurophylls, Laurus nobilis L. is considered one of the most prominent from the morphological, evolutionary, and eco...

Aim Plant species continue to be moved outside of their native range by human activities. Here, we aim to determine whether, once introduced, plants assimilate into native communities or whether they aggregate, thus forming mosaics of native‐ and alien‐rich communities. Alien species might aggregate in their non‐native range owing to shared habitat preferences, such as their tendency to establish in high‐biomass, species‐poor...