Adam F. A. Pellegrini

TL;DR: In this article, the authors performed a meta-analysis on species' mortality rates across 475 species from 33 studies around the globe to assess which traits determine a species’ mortality risk and found that species-specific mortality anomalies from community mortality rate in a given drought were associated with plant hydraulic traits.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined global N and P limitation using the ratio of site-averaged leaf resorption efficiencies of the dominant species across 171 sites and evaluated their predictions using a global database of N- and P-limitation experiments based on nutrient additions at 106 and 53 sites, respectively.

TL;DR: Analysis of data from 48 sites in savanna grasslands, broadleaf forests and needleleaf forests spanning up to 65 years finds that frequently burned plots experienced a decline in surface soil carbon and nitrogen that was non-saturating through time, and predicts that the long-term losses of soil nitrogen that result from more frequent burning may in turn decrease the carbon that is sequestered by net primary productivity.

TL;DR: In this paper, the diversity of ways in which fire operates as a fundamental ecological and evolutionary process on Earth is described, and the need to study fire across temporal scales, to assess the mechanisms underlying a variety of ecological feedbacks involving fire and to improve representation of fire in a range of modelling contexts.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors synthesize data from 108 eCO2 experiments and find that the effect of e CO2 on organic carbon stocks is best explained by a negative relationship with plant biomass: when plant biomass is strongly stimulated by e CO 2, organic carbon storage declines; conversely, when biomass is weakly stimulated, SOC storage increases.