Background and aims Previously, triple super phosphate (TSP) application to one soil type was unexpectedly found to cause with soil drying an initiation of linear decrease in maize transpiration rate at an unusually high soil water content. The resulting overall slower soil water extraction resulted in crop drought resilience. A key issue is whether the response occurs with drying of other soils. The objective of this study wa...

Widespread insect losses are a critical global problem. Mitigating this problem requires identifying the principal drivers across different taxa and determining which insects are covered by protected areas. However, doing so is hindered by missing information on most species owing to extremely high insect diversity and difficulties in morphological identification. To address this knowledge gap, we used one of the most comprehe...

Accurate ground‐based estimation of the carbon stored in terrestrial ecosystems is critical to quantifying the global carbon budget. Allometric models provide cost‐effective methods for biomass prediction. But do such models vary with ecoregion or plant functional type? We compiled 15 054 measurements of individual tree or shrub biomass from across Australia to examine the generality of allometric models for above‐ground bioma...

In widespread and genetically structured populations, temperature variation may lead to among‐population differentiation of thermal biology. The New Zealand stick insect genus Micrarchus contains four species that inhabit different thermal environments, two of which are geographically widespread. RNA ‐Seq and quantitative PCR were used to investigate the transcriptional responses to cold shock among lowland and alpine species...

Conservation actions could be more efficient if there is congruence among taxa in the distribution of species. Patterns in the geographical distribution of five taxa were used to identify nationally important regions for conservation in Canada. Two measures of surrogacy were significantly and positively correlated among taxa, and conservation areas selected for one taxon represented other taxa significantly better than random...

This study was conducted to determine the response in leaf growth and gas exchange of soybean ( Glycine max Merr.) to the combined effects of water deficits and carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) enrichment. Plants grown in pots were allowed to develop initially in a glasshouse under ambient CO 2 and well‐watered conditions. Four‐week old plants were transferred into two different glasshouses with either ambient (360 μmol mol ‐1 ) or elev...