• Plant resource-use traits are generally hypothesized to be adaptively differentiated for populations distributed along resource gradients. Although nutrient limitations are expected to select for resource-conservative strategies, water limitations may select for either resource-conservative or -acquisitive strategies. We test whether population differentiation reflects local adaptation for tr...

In three studies, we show that loss aversion is essential to greed, in addition to acquisitive behavior. This drives them towards paying for insurances and warranties to avoid future financial or product loss. Furthermore, when they experience a history of no-losses, it limits their purchase likelihood of insurances.

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Plant functional traits underlie vegetation responses to environmental changes such as global warming, and consequently influence ecosystem processes. While most of the existing studies focus on the effect of warming only on species diversity and productivity, we further investigated (i) how the structure of community plant functional traits in temperate grasslands respond to experimental warmi...