Pilar Castro-Díez

TL;DR: Whether the screening techniques remain operational in widely contrasted circumstances, to test for the existence of axes of variation in the particular sets of traits, and for their links with ‘harder’ traits of proven importance to ecosystem functioning are discovered.

TL;DR: Variation in leaf structure and anatomy among species and species groups has a strong genetic basis and is already expressed early in the development of woody plants, as shown predominantly by species from resource-poor environments.

TL;DR: Gradients of soil fertility are frequently also gradients of biomass accumulation with reduced irradiance lower in the canopy, and SLA, which includes both fertility and shade components, may often discriminate better between communities or treatments than LDMC, however, LDMC should always be the preferred trait for assessing gradientsof soil fertility uncoupled from shade.

TL;DR: The aim of the present study is to review the available information on the life-history and ecological traits of the mud snail, Potamopyrgus antipodarum Gray (Hydrobiidae, Mollusca), native from New Zealand, in order to explain its invasive success at different aquatic ecosystems around the world.

TL;DR: Overall, plant invasions increased N pools and accelerated fluxes, even when excluding N-fixing invaders, and it is shown that more functionally distant invaders occurring in mild climates are causing the strongest alterations to the N cycle.