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View article: Harmonizing nature’s timescales in ecosystem models
Harmonizing nature’s timescales in ecosystem models Open
Modeling complex, nonlinear ecosystem processes across different timescales presents a significant challenge. We identify two key issues: selecting a representative timestep that captures interconnected processes across various timescales,…
View article: New insights to be gained from a Virtual Ecosystem
New insights to be gained from a Virtual Ecosystem Open
The myriad interactions among individual plants, animals, microbes and their abiotic environment generate emergent phenomena that will determine the future of life on Earth. Here, we argue that holistic ecosystem models – incorporating key…
View article: New insights to be gained from a Virtual Ecosystem
New insights to be gained from a Virtual Ecosystem Open
The myriad interactions among individual plants, animals, microbes and their abiotic environment generate emergent phenomena that will determine the future of life on Earth. Here, we argue that holistic ecosystem models – incorporating key…
View article: Incorporating photosynthetic acclimation improves stomatal optimisation models
Incorporating photosynthetic acclimation improves stomatal optimisation models Open
Stomatal opening in plant leaves is regulated through a balance of carbon and water exchange under different environmental conditions. Accurate estimation of stomatal regulation is crucial for understanding how plants respond to changing e…
View article: Inferring geographic and climatic variation in plant hydraulic traits from flux data
Inferring geographic and climatic variation in plant hydraulic traits from flux data Open
Plant water stress has major implications for vegetation productivity, mortality, and global carbon cycle variations. Yet, its representation in models constitutes a major source of uncertainty. This is related to uncertainties in the repr…
View article: Non-matching predictions from different models simulating the effects of elevated atmospheric CO2 on the Amazon forest’s functional diversity
Non-matching predictions from different models simulating the effects of elevated atmospheric CO2 on the Amazon forest’s functional diversity Open
The continuous rising of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) concentration is undoubtedly affecting the resilience of tropical forests worldwide. However, the magnitude of such effects is poorly known, limiting our capacity to assess the vuln…
View article: Modelling Water and Biodiversity: Coupling a dynamic eco-evolution trait-based vegetation model with a community water model 
Modelling Water and Biodiversity: Coupling a dynamic eco-evolution trait-based vegetation model with a community water model  Open
The recently developed Plant-FATE (Plant Functional Acclimation and Trait Evolution) model is a trait-size-structured eco-evolutionary population model derived from the ‘Plant’ model. It includes a McKendrick-von Foerster parti…
View article: Incorporating roots into Plant-FATE, a dynamic eco-evolution trait-based vegetation model
Incorporating roots into Plant-FATE, a dynamic eco-evolution trait-based vegetation model Open
To predict the response of forest ecosystems and how projected climate change will shift plant species composition, we need models that can account for adaptations encompassing multiple temporal and organizational scales. Recently, eco-evo…
View article: Comment on bg-2023-182
Comment on bg-2023-182 Open
Abstract. Abrupt changes in ocean biogeochemical variables occur as a result of human-induced climate forcing as well as those which are more gradual and occur over longer timescales. These abrupt changes have not yet been…
View article: Reviews and syntheses: Abrupt ocean biogeochemical change under human-made climatic forcing – warming, acidification, and deoxygenation
Reviews and syntheses: Abrupt ocean biogeochemical change under human-made climatic forcing – warming, acidification, and deoxygenation Open
Abrupt changes in ocean biogeochemical variables occur as a result of human-induced climate forcing as well as those which are more gradual and occur over longer timescales. These abrupt changes have not yet been identified and quantified …
View article: libpspm: A feature-rich numerical package for solving physiologically structured population models
libpspm: A feature-rich numerical package for solving physiologically structured population models Open
For a vast majority of organisms, life-history processes depend on their physiological state, such as body size, as well as on their environment. Size-structured population models, or more generally, physiologically structured population m…
View article: Incorporating photosynthetic acclimation improves stomatal optimisation models
Incorporating photosynthetic acclimation improves stomatal optimisation models Open
Stomatal opening in plant leaves is regulated through a balance of carbon and water exchange under different environmental conditions. Accurate estimation of stomatal regulation is crucial for understanding how plants respond to changing e…
View article: Competition for light can drive adverse species-composition shifts in the Amazon Forest under elevated CO<sub>2</sub>
Competition for light can drive adverse species-composition shifts in the Amazon Forest under elevated CO<sub>2</sub> Open
The resilience of biodiverse forests to climate change depends on an interplay of adaptive processes operating at multiple temporal and organizational scales. These include short-term acclimation of physiological processes like photosynthe…
View article: Optimal balancing of xylem efficiency and safety explains plant vulnerability to drought
Optimal balancing of xylem efficiency and safety explains plant vulnerability to drought Open
In vast areas of the world, forests and vegetation are water limited and plant survival depends on the ability to avoid catastrophic hydraulic failure. Therefore, it is remarkable that plants take hydraulic risks by operating at water pote…
View article: Roles of diversity and adaptation in the eco-evolutionary responses of biodiverse plant communities to climate change
Roles of diversity and adaptation in the eco-evolutionary responses of biodiverse plant communities to climate change Open
Climate change is projected to cause not only higher mean temperatures but also higher climate variability. Although elevated CO2 concentrations can potentially increase the productivity of some ecosystems, higher temperatures and more fre…
View article: Improving stomatal optimization models for accurate prediction of photosynthesis under drought conditions.
Improving stomatal optimization models for accurate prediction of photosynthesis under drought conditions. Open
Accurate estimation of stomatal regulation is crucial for understanding how plants respond to changing environmental conditions, particularly under climate change. While stomatal optimization models have made significant progress in predic…
View article: Towards a unified theory of plant photosynthesis and hydraulics
Towards a unified theory of plant photosynthesis and hydraulics Open
View article: Optimal balancing of xylem efficiency and safety explains plant vulnerability to drought
Optimal balancing of xylem efficiency and safety explains plant vulnerability to drought Open
Summary In vast areas of the world, the growth of forests and vegetation is water-limited and plant survival depends on the ability to avoid catastrophic hydraulic failure. Therefore, it is remarkable that plants take high hydraulic risks …
View article: Plants maximize the conductive efficiency of the xylem&#160;
Plants maximize the conductive efficiency of the xylem  Open
<p>In vast areas of the world, the growth of forests and vegetation is water-limited and plant survival depends on the ability to avoid catastrophic hydraulic failure. Therefore, it is surprising that plants take high hydraulic risks…
View article: Plant-FATE &#8211; Predicting the adaptive responses of biodiverse plant communities using functional-trait evolution
Plant-FATE – Predicting the adaptive responses of biodiverse plant communities using functional-trait evolution Open
<p>We present Plant-FATE, a trait-size-structured vegetation model in which the time evolution of the size distribution of multiple species is modelled using the McKendrick-von Foerster partial differential equation. In our model, tr…
View article: Understanding and modelling wildfire regimes: an ecological perspective
Understanding and modelling wildfire regimes: an ecological perspective Open
Recent extreme wildfire seasons in several regions have been associated with exceptionally hot, dry conditions, made more probable by climate change. Much research has focused on extreme fire weather and its drivers, but natural wildfire r…
View article: Eco‐evolutionary optimality as a means to improve vegetation and land‐surface models
Eco‐evolutionary optimality as a means to improve vegetation and land‐surface models Open
Summary Global vegetation and land‐surface models embody interdisciplinary scientific understanding of the behaviour of plants and ecosystems, and are indispensable to project the impacts of environmental change on vegetation and the inter…
View article: Eco-evolutionary responses of plant communities to drought and rainfall variability
Eco-evolutionary responses of plant communities to drought and rainfall variability Open
<p>The future Earth is projected to experience elevated rainfall variability, with more frequent and intense droughts, as well as high-rainfall events. Increasing CO<sub>2</sub> concentrations are expected to raise terres…
View article: Improving prediction and assessment of global fires using multilayer neural networks
Improving prediction and assessment of global fires using multilayer neural networks Open
View article: Towards a unified theory of plant photosynthesis and hydraulics
Towards a unified theory of plant photosynthesis and hydraulics Open
The global carbon and water cycles are governed by the coupling of CO 2 and water vapour exchanges through the leaves of terrestrial plants, controlled by plant adaptations to balance carbon gains and hydraulic risks. We introduce a trait-…
View article: Improving prediction and assessment of global wildfires using neural networks
Improving prediction and assessment of global wildfires using neural networks Open
Fires determine vegetation patterns, impact human societies, and provide complex feedbacks into the global climate system. Empirical and process-based models differ in their scale and mechanistic assumptions, giving divergent predictions o…
View article: Towards a unified theory of plant photosynthesis and hydraulics
Towards a unified theory of plant photosynthesis and hydraulics Open
<p>Increasing frequencies and intensities of droughts are projected for many regions of the Earth. Water stress leads to a decline in the gross primary productivity (GPP) of plants. Plant responses to water stress vary with timescale…
View article: Emergence of social inequality in the spatial harvesting of renewable public goods
Emergence of social inequality in the spatial harvesting of renewable public goods Open
Spatially extended ecological public goods, such as forests, grasslands, and fish stocks, are at risk of being overexploited by selfish consumers-a phenomenon widely recognized as the 'tragedy of the commons.' The interplay of spatial and …
View article: Emergence of social inequality in a spatial-ecological public goods game
Emergence of social inequality in a spatial-ecological public goods game Open
Spatial ecological public goods, such as forests, grasslands, and fish stocks risk being overexploited by selfish consumers, a phenomenon called “the tragedy of commons”. The spatial and ecological dimensions introduce new features absent …
View article: Mobility can promote the evolution of cooperation via emergent self-assortment dynamics
Mobility can promote the evolution of cooperation via emergent self-assortment dynamics Open
The evolution of costly cooperation, where cooperators pay a personal cost to benefit others, requires that cooperators interact more frequently with other cooperators. This condition, called positive assortment, is known to occur in spati…