Helge Bruelheide, Jürgen Dengler, Oliver Purschke, Jonathan Lenoir et al.
Plant functional traits directly affect ecosystem functions. At the species level, trait combinations depend on trade-offs representing different ecological strategies, but at the community level trait combinations are expected to be decoupled from these trade-offs because different strategies can f...
Helge Bruelheide, Jürgen Dengler, Borja Jiménez‐Alfaro, Oliver Purschke et al.
Abstract Aims Vegetation‐plot records provide information on the presence and cover or abundance of plants co‐occurring in the same community. Vegetation‐plot data are spread across research groups, environmental agencies and biodiversity research centers and, thus, are rarely accessible at continen...
Francesco María Sabatini, Borja Jiménez‐Alfaro, Ute Jandt, Milan Chytrý et al.
Global patterns of regional (gamma) plant diversity are relatively well known, but whether these patterns hold for local communities, and the dependence on spatial grain, remain controversial. Using data on 170,272 georeferenced local plant assemblages, we created global maps of alpha diversity (loc...
Sawon Istiak Anik, Mohammed Abu Sayed Arfin Khan
Francesco María Sabatini, Jonathan Lenoir, Tarek Hattab, Elise Arnst et al.
Abstract Motivation Assessing biodiversity status and trends in plant communities is critical for understanding, quantifying and predicting the effects of global change on ecosystems. Vegetation plots record the occurrence or abundance of all plant species co‐occurring within delimited local areas. ...
Jüergen Kreyling, Jürgen Dengler, Julia Walter, Nikolay Velev et al.
Biodiversity can buffer ecosystem functioning against extreme climatic events, but few experiments have explicitly tested this. Here, we present the first multisite biodiversity × drought manipulation experiment to examine drought resistance and recovery at five temperate and Mediterranean grassland...
Romel Ahmed, Mohammad Belal Uddin, Mohammed Abu Sayed Arfin Khan, Sharif A. Mukul et al.
Kevin Van Sundert, Mohammed Abu Sayed Arfin Khan, Siddharth Bharath, Yvonne M. Buckley et al.
Droughts can strongly affect grassland productivity and biodiversity, but responses differ widely. Nutrient availability may be a critical factor explaining this variation, but is often ignored in analyses of drought responses. Here, we used a standardized nutrient addition experiment covering 10 Eu...
Jüergen Kreyling, Kerstin Grant, Verena Hammerl, Mohammed Abu Sayed Arfin Khan et al.
Climate change affects all seasons, but warming is more pronounced in winter than summer at mid- and high latitudes. Winter warming can have profound ecological effects, which are rarely compared to the effects of summer warming, and causal explanations are not well established. We compared mild abo...
Md. Habibur Rahman, Mohammed Abu Sayed Arfin Khan, Bishwajit Roy, Most. Jannatul Fardusi
Andrey V. Malyshev, Mohammed Abu Sayed Arfin Khan, Carl Beierkuhnlein, Manuel J. Steinbauer et al.
Within-species and among-species differences in growth responses to a changing climate have been well documented, yet the relative magnitude of within-species vs. among-species variation has remained largely unexplored. This missing comparison impedes our ability to make general predictions of biodi...
Jüergen Kreyling, Mohammed Abu Sayed Arfin Khan, Fahmida Sultana, W. Babel et al.
Extreme drought events challenge ecosystem functioning. Ecological response to drought is studied worldwide in a growing number of field experiments by rain-out shelters. Yet, few meta-analyses face severe challenges in the comparability of studies. This is partly because build-up of drought stress ...
Sharif A. Mukul, Mohammed Belal Uddin, Mohammad Sharif Uddin, Mohammed Abu Sayed Arfin Khan et al.
This paper reviews the present status of, challenges to, and prospects for protected areas (PAs) in Bangladesh. The purpose of the study was to provide up-to-date information on country's PAs to various national and international donor and conservation agencies. So far, a total of eighteen PAs have ...
Bernd J. Berauer, Peter A. Wilfahrt, Mohammed Abu Sayed Arfin Khan, Pia Eibes et al.
High-elevation ecosystems will experience increasing periods of above-average warmth and altered precipitation changes because of climate change. This causes uncertainties for community properties such as productivity and biodiversity. Increasing temperature may increase productivity by increasing g...
Andrey V. Malyshev, Hugh A. L. Henry, Andreas Bolte, Mohammed Abu Sayed Arfin Khan et al.
Phenological responses to winter and spring warming in trees alter growing season length and can influence productivity. An improved mechanistic understanding of phenology, including temporal changes in budburst forcing requirements (BFR) and photoperiod sensitivity, could improve projections of phe...