Interlinking moss functional traits. A commentary on: ‘Mechanisms behind species-specific water economy responses to water level drawdown in peat mosses’

Light responses of mire mosses a key to survival after water-level drawdown?

T. Hájek ([email protected]), Inst. of Botany of ASCR, Dukelská 135, CZ 37982 Třeboň, Czech Republic. E-S. Tuittila and R. Laiho, Dept of Forest Ecology, Univ. of Helsinki, PO Box 27, FIN-00014 Helsinki, Finland. M. Ilomets, Dept of Landscape Ecology, Inst. of Ecology, Tallinn Univ., Uus-Sadama 5, EE 10120 Tallinn, Estonia. TH also at: Faculty of Science, Univ. of South Bohemia, Branišovská 31...

Habitat-specific responses of leaf traits to soil water conditions in species from a novel alpine swamp meadow community

Species originally from alpine wetland and alpine meadow communities now coexist in a novel 'alpine swamp meadow' community as a consequence of wetland drying in the eastern Tibetan Plateau. Considering the projected increase in the fluctuation of water supply from precipitation during the growing season in this area in the future, it is important to investigate the responses of the species tha...

Aquitard Effect on Drawdown in Water Table Aquifers

The resilience and functional role of moss in boreal and arctic ecosystems.

Mosses in northern ecosystems are ubiquitous components of plant communities, and strongly influence nutrient, carbon and water cycling. We use literature review, synthesis and model simulations to explore the role of mosses in ecological stability and resilience. Moss community responses to disturbance showed all possible responses (increases, decreases, no change) within most disturbance cate...

Hawaiian native forest conserves water relative to timber plantation: species and stand traits influence water use.

Tropical forests are becoming increasingly alien-dominated through the establishment of timber plantations and secondary forests. Despite widespread recognition that afforestation results in increased evapotranspiration and lower catchment yields, little is known of the impacts of timber plantations on water balance relative to native forest. Native forest trees have been claimed to use water c...