Concepts

The functioning of ecosystems including processes such as carbon and nutrient cycling and storage, community- and ecosystem-level responses, and overall ecosystem properties and processes

Movement of seeds away from parent plants through various mechanisms including wind, animals, and gravity

Experimental removal of the most abundant plant species to test effects of species loss on community structure and function

Parasitic plants that retain absorptive roots and are capable of carbon fixation through photosynthesis but still need to draw some of their resources from their hosts because they have low nutrient-u...