Brian J. Enquist

TL;DR: A potential corollary of the postulate that local conditions that depress abundance are also likely to perturb development is evaluated, finding that the majority of low-abundance peripheral populations exhibit relatively low levels of developmental instability.

TL;DR: The opportunity for field courses to align teaching activities with the recent developments and trends in how the authors conduct research is highlighted, including training in: publishing registered reports, collecting data using standardized methods, adopting high‐quality data documentation, managing data through reproducible workflows, and sharing and publishing data through appropriate channels.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined how forest physiognomy and functional composition respond to changes in the environment, hydraulic, and soil properties, and found that decreases in soil water availability are a central driver of local phenotype environment matching and that increasing water limitation increases the role of environmental filtering on multiple traits.

TL;DR: In this article, a large-scale geographical pattern in community-average plant height (CAPH) of woody species and the drivers of these patterns across different life forms are investigated, and whether CAPH could be used as a predictor of ecosystem primary productivity is unknown.