Complementary resource use by functionally different species may accelerate ecosystem processes. However, how co‐variation in plant traits and animal traits promotes complementarity through temporal plant–animal interactions is poorly understood, even less so in detrital systems, thereby hampering our fundamental understanding of decomposition and carbon turnover. We hypothesised that, in seasonal subtropical forests where ter...

The offshore wind farm industry has recently experienced significant global growth. This study presents a thorough site investigation and analysis of the cyclic resistance of marine clay for offshore foundation design, using the Shaba wind farm in southern China as a case study. In-situ cone penetrometer (CPTu) tests and borehole sampling are conducted to explore the geotechnical characteristics of the soils. However, the soil...

The plant economics spectrum integrates trade‐offs and covariation in resource economic traits of different plant organs and their consequences for pivotal ecosystem processes, such as decomposition. However, in this concept stems are often considered as one unit ignoring the important functional differences between wood (xylem) and bark. These differences may not only affect the performance of woody plants during their lifeti...