Yan Deng

TL;DR: In this paper, the relationship between biodiversity and multiple ecosystem functions (that is, ecosystem multifunctionality) are context-dependent, and a strong positive association between plant species richness and soil multifunctional in less arid regions, whereas microbial diversity, in particular of fungi, is positively associated with ecosystem function in more arid areas.

TL;DR: The plants of common garden evolved and adapted themselves for their survival in the arid environment and showed convergent variations in their leaf traits, however, these variations were not phylogenetics-specific and were most likely due to the environmental factors.

TL;DR: It is shown that water content significantly influences mass specific metabolic rates as predicted by the model, and provides novel insights into how water content together with body size and temperature quantitatively influence plant growth and metabolism, community dynamics, and ecosystem energetics.

TL;DR: Zhang et al. as mentioned in this paper evaluated the relative importance of water and energy to dryland plant diversity based on 1039 quadrats across 184 sites in China's dryland and found that water availability and the water-energy interaction were pivotal to plant diversity in the entire dryland.