Alain Blanchard

TL;DR: The three easily measurable traits tested, specific leaf area, leaf dry matter content, and nitrogen concentration, provide a simple means to scale up from organ to ecosystem functioning in complex plant communities and be used to assess the impacts of community changes on ecosystem properties induced, in particular, by global change drivers.

TL;DR: The results demonstrated the relevance of instantaneous measures of plant traits as indicators of resource depletion over time, validating the trait-based approach for competition ecology.

TL;DR: It is shown that soil water and nutrient limitations are the main drivers controlling functional community structure in the Mediterranean rangelands studied and that shifts in this structure were mainly due to species turnover.

TL;DR: The highly co-ordinated variation of roots and leaves in terms of traits and potential decomposition rate suggests that changes in the functional composition of communities in response to anthropogenic changes will strongly affect biogeochemical cycles at the ecosystem level.

TL;DR: In this article, a 20 ks XMM observation of the distant cluster RX J1120.1+4318, discovered at z = 0.6 in the SHARC survey, was reported.