| Niche packing, but not niche expansion, explains the co-occurrence of hummingbirds-visited plants
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| Functional structure of European forest beetle communities is enhanced by rare species
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| Nutrient identity modifies the destabilising effects of eutrophication in grasslands
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| Linking changes in species composition and biomass in a globally distributed grassland experiment
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| Forest microclimates and climate change: importance, drivers and future research agenda
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| Specialists and generalists fulfil important and complementary functional roles in ecological processes
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| Direct and indirect effects of rorest anthropogenic disturbance on above and below ground communities and litter decomposition
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| Plant functional trait shifts explain concurrent changes in the structure and function of grassland soil microbial communities
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| Traditional plant functional groups explain variation in economic but not size-related traits across the tundra biome
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| Below-ground resource partitioning alone cannot explain the biodiversity-ecosystem function relationship: a field test using multiple tracers
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| Positive diversity-functioning relationships in model communities of methanotrophic bacteria
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| Wood decay rates of 13 temperate tree species in relation to wood properties, enzyme activities and organismic diversities
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| Historical and recent land use affects ecosystem functions in subtropical grasslands in Brazil
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| Holocene changes in climate and land use drove shifts in the diversity of testate amoebae in a subalpine pond
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| Shrub expansion in tundra ecosystems: dynamics, impacts and research priorities
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| Understanding species and community response to environmental change - a functional trait perspective
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| Taxonomical vs. functional responses of bee communities to fire in two contrasting climatic regions
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| Quantitative estimates of coarse woody debris and standing dead trees in selected Swiss forests
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