Climate change projections anticipate increased frequency and intensity of drought stress, but grassland responses to severe droughts and their potential to recover are poorly understood. In many grasslands, high land-use intensity has enhanced productivity and promoted resource-acquisitive species at the expense of resource-conservative ones. Such changes in plant functional composition could ...

Abstract Invasive species may act as a functional filter on native communities by differentially affecting with different trait values. Across environments, invasive plants typically display traits associated high resource acquisition and fast growth. Conversely, plants, especially those in water-limited tend to adopt one of two strategies: growth during availability avoid stress (resource-acqu...

A fundamental goal in ecology is to link variation in species function to performance, but functional trait-performance investigations have had mixed success. This indicates that less commonly measured functional traits may more clearly elucidate trait-performance relationships. Despite the potential importance of leaf vein traits, which are expected to be related to resource delivery rates and...

The leaf economics spectrum (LES) describes large cross-species variation in suites of leaf functional traits ranging from resource-acquisitive to resource-conservative strategies. Such strategies have been integral in explaining plant adaptation to diverse environments, and have been linked to numerous ecosystem processes. The LES has previously been found to be significantly modulated by clim...

Cover crops can produce ecosystem services during the fallow period, as reducing nitrate leaching and producing green manure. Crop growth rate (CGR) and crop nitrogen acquisition rate (CNR) can be used as two indicators of the ability of cover crops to produce these services in agrosystems. We used leaf functional traits to characterise the growth strategies of 36 cover crops as an approach to ...

The article analyzes some family law and property questions, arising in connection with the declared state of emergency from 13.3.2020 to 13.5.2020 on territory Republic Bulgaria due epidemic COVID-19. Answers are given following questions: can court consider a divorce claim or an application for by mutual consent during emergency; whether it is possible attain judicial protection cases domesti...