Background and Aims Beneficial plant–microbe interactions can improve plant performance under drought; however, we know less about how drought-induced shifts in microbial communities affect plant traits. Methods We cultivated Zea mays in fritted clay with soil microbiomes originating from contrasting environments (agriculture or forest) under two irrigation treatments (well-watered or water limited). Using this design, we inve...

Stomata regulate CO 2 uptake for photosynthesis and water loss through transpiration. The approaches used to represent stomatal conductance ( g s ) in models vary. In particular, current understanding of drivers of the variation in a key parameter in those models, the slope parameter (i.e. a measure of intrinsic plant water‐use‐efficiency), is still limited, particularly in the tropics. Here we collected diurnal measurements o...

Higher temperatures associated with climate change are anticipated to trigger an earlier start to the growing season, which could increase the terrestrial C sink strength. Greater variability in the amount and timing of precipitation is also expected with higher temperatures, bringing increased drought stress to many ecosystems. We experimentally assessed the effects of higher temperature and drought on the foliar phenology an...

In the face of ongoing habitat fragmentation, species–area relationships (SARs) have gained renewed interest and are increasingly used to set conservation priorities. An important question is how large habitat areas need to be to optimize biodiversity conservation. The relationship between area and species richness is explained by colonization–extinction dynamics, whereby smaller sites harbor smaller populations, which are mor...

Total length ( L T ) (range 24–1000 mm; mean ± s.e . = 170·21 ± 0·36 mm) and mass ( W ) (range 0·10–9590 g; mean ± s.e . = 76·03 ± 0·87 g) of 36 460 specimens of marble trout Salmo marmoratus were used to compute a standard mass ( W s ) equation for this species by means of the empirical percentile (EmP) method. The EmP W s equation calculated was: log 10 W s = −5·208 + 3·202 log 10 L T − 0·046 (log 10 L T ) 2 ( L T range 90–5...

Total length ( L T ) and mass measurements of 28 596 specimens of European chub Leuciscus cephalus , collected from a variety of waterways across Italy, were used to compute standard mass ( W s ) equations by both empirical percentile (EmP) and regression line percentile (RLP) methods. The use of the EmP W s equation [log 10 W s = −4·79 + 2·68log 10 L T + 0·10(log 10 L T ) 2 ] to compute relative mass ( W r ) of L. cephalus in...