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Journal of Plant Ecology (JPE) is a bi-monthly, peer-reviewed journal of plant ecology.
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📢 The December issue (2025) has been published !
🔗 Volume 18, Issue 6, December 2025
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Meng-Qiu Niu et al. constructed #Plant–plantCo-occurrenceNetworks within #CushionMicrohabitats at both regional and local scales in the Himalaya–Hengduan Mountains, focusing on the influences of multiple #CushionPlants in shaping plant–plant network structures.

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January 8, 2026 at 8:31 AM
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Yuxi Liu et al. explored how does the transformation from tropical #SecondaryForest to #RubberPlantation affect the #Composition and #Diversity of #SoilBacterialCommunities.

#SoilPhysicochemicalProperties

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January 8, 2026 at 8:26 AM
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Jianguo Liu et al. explored allocation strategy of mobile carbohydrates of #QinghaiSpruce in the #AlpineTreelineEcotone of the northeastern #TibetanPlateau

#NonstructuralCarbohydrates | #ExtremeDroughtAndColdEnvironments

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January 7, 2026 at 8:31 AM
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Qiong Chen et al. explored substrate and microorganism-driven shape seasonal variations in soil denitrification rates along altitudes in alpine mountains.

#ForestEcosystem | #NitrogenDynamics | #Elevations | #EdaphicProperties | #DenitrifyingGenes

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January 7, 2026 at 8:28 AM
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Yingcheng Wang et al.
Selective recruitment of #CoreRhizobacterial communities with distinct life-history strategies by two grass genera

#DominantGrass | #FunctionalPredictions | #r/K-selectionTheory | #Qinghai–TibetanPlateauRegion

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The relative contribution of environmental variables to grass and core rhizobacterial growth strategies based on random forest. Conceptual figure showing the life-history strategies of grasses and core rhizobacteria. In networks, blue links represents positive and red links represents negative.
January 6, 2026 at 8:09 AM
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Yongning Li et al.
Unraveling vital rates in the seedling-to-sapling transition via #PlantTraitNetworks in a subtropical forest

#DemographicProgressModel | #NetworkCentralization | #PassageTime | #SubtropicalSeedlingPopulations

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Seedling-to-sapling passage time and 5-year survival of 26 focal species. Visualization of the centralization degree of the plant traits network (a, small centralization degree; b, large centralization degree) and the relationship between seedling-to-sapling transition (c, passage time; d, survival period) and the centralization degree of plant traits network.
January 6, 2026 at 8:06 AM
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Meiqi Yin et al.
Effects of waste amendments on soil nutrients and plant growth: role of plant species and #Phosphorus-solubilizingBacteria

#AgriculturalWaste | #IndustrialWaste | #SoilPhosphorus | #SoilSilicon | #PlantDiversity

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January 5, 2026 at 8:06 AM
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Huiyuan Cheng et al.
Latitudinal pattern of plant invasion driven by species diversity over phylogenetic distance

#BioticResistance | #DiversityResistance | #EnvironmentalFiltering | #InvasionEcology | #LatitudinalGradient

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Field survey sites in southeastern China (a) and the phylogenetic tree of all investigated species (b). Effects of various variables on community invasibility.
January 5, 2026 at 8:03 AM
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Yang Li et al.
#Shrubland carbon storage in northern China: a synergistic analysis of climate, plant community and soil traits

#CarbonDensity | #Richness | #Diversity | #TotalPhosphorusContent

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January 4, 2026 at 8:01 AM
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Zengzeng Yang et al.
Response of growth and #ReproductiveTraits to #Mowing tolerance mechanism in #ElymusSpecies

#GrowthTraits | #MowingTolerance | #Qinghai–TibetanPlateau

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Principal component analysis of growth traits and reproductive traits of Elymus species under different mowing treatments.
January 4, 2026 at 7:58 AM
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Chunyue Yao et al.
Plant diversity drives ecosystem multifunctionality under #Grazing management in temperate #Grasslands

#Biodiversity | #EcosystemFunction | #PlantCommunity | #MicrobialCommunity

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January 3, 2026 at 2:09 PM
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Jianyong Wang et al.
Diversity and #Productivity of a natural grassland decline with the number of global change factors

#CommunityComposition | #GrasslandEcosystems | #GrasslandManagement | #MultipleGlobalChangeFactors

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Effects of single and multiple global change factors (GCFs) on (a) community productivity, (b) vegetation coverage, and (c) community-weighted mean plant height in the Songnen grassland in northeastern China. Effects of single and multiple global change factors (GCFs) on (a) species richness, (b) Shannon-Wiener diversity index, (c) Simpson's diversity index, and (d) Evenness in the Songnen grassland in northeastern China.
January 3, 2026 at 2:05 PM
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【Commentary】Ecological theory matters when linking plant functional traits and ecosystem carbon cycles

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The conceptual framework tracing the influence of plant functional traits on ecosystem carbon cycle.
January 2, 2026 at 2:22 PM
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📢 The December issue (2025) has been published !
🔗 Volume 18, Issue 6, December 2025
🔎 academic.oup.com/jpe/issue/18/6
January 2, 2026 at 2:17 PM
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【🎉Latest accepted article】
Clonal integration differentially impacts grassland plants under simulated homogeneous and heterogeneous grazing

#GrasslandManagement | #GrazingFrequencyAndIntensity | #GrowthForm

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Clonal integration differentially impacts grassland plants under simulated homogeneous and heterogeneous grazing
Abstract. The frequency and intensity of grazing may play different roles in plant growth. This potential uncoupling of frequency and intensity may be inte
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January 1, 2026 at 2:59 PM
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【🎉Latest accepted article】
Degradation shifts #CarbonAllocation to #Hyphosphere bacteria and disrupts plant- #ArbuscularMycorrhizalFungal preference in Tibetan alpine meadows

#Host-microbialPreference | #AlpineMeadowDegradation

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Degradation shifts carbon allocation to hyphosphere bacteria and disrupts plant-arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal preference in Tibetan alpine meadows
Abstract. Tibetan alpine meadow degradation profoundly alters plant-microbe interactions and carbon stability, yet its impacts on host-arbuscular mycorrhiz
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January 1, 2026 at 2:52 PM
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【🎉Latest accepted article】
Beneficial obstacles: small-scale barriers can promote clonal plant growth

#ClonalGrowth | #SpatialPopulationDynamics | #HabitatPatches | #Genet | #PlantCompetition | #PedestrianCrowdDynamics

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December 31, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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【🎉Latest accepted article】
Invasive plants exhibit stronger root-shoot ratio plasticity than natives under #AbioticStress: Insights from meta-analysis and experiments

#InvasiveSpecies | #PhenotypicPlasticity | #ResourceAllocation

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Invasive plants exhibit stronger root-shoot ratio plasticity than natives under abiotic stress: Insights from meta-analysis and experiments
Abstract. Invasive plants pose a major threat to global ecosystems, exhibiting broad adaptability to multifaceted abiotic stresses. To investigate whether
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December 31, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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💻 Tracking #Forest #Overstory and #Understory #Phenology using a near-surface remote sensing system

#DigitalRepeatPhotography | #UnmannedAerialVehicle | #GreenChromaticCoordinates

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The near-surface remote sensing system to monitor forest vertical layer phenology.
December 30, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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📖 Correction to: The mechanisms of plant-associated microbes in regulating plant drought adaptation

🔎 Journal of Plant Ecology, Volume 18, Issue 4, August 2025, rtaf047

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Correction to: The mechanisms of plant-associated microbes in regulating plant drought adaptation
This is a correction to: Chaoqun Chen, Juan Zhan, Wenzhi Du, Shulan Wu, Liu Li, Chunying Yin, The mechanisms of plant-associated microbes in regulating pla
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December 30, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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⚖️ #Legumes ➡️ Soil #PhosphorusCycling

Place:
P-deficient karst ecosystems

Results:
Rhizosphere microbial processes of legume species regulate soil phosphorus dynamics in #SubtropicalKarstEcosystems.

#P-cyclingFunctionalGenes

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Alpha diversity indices and community composition of phoC- and phoD-harboring bacterial communities in the rhizosphere soils of legumes and non-legumes in a subtropical karst ecosystem in China (n = 12).
December 29, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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♾️ Forest type & seasonality & fungal community dynamics ➡️ carbon use efficiency: Interplay

💡 Results:
Soil fungal community composition drives forest-specific and #SeasonalDynamics of microbial carbon use efficiency in subalpine ecosystems.

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The conceptual model illustrating the pattern of microbial carbon use efficiency (CUE) across forest types and seasons.
December 29, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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💡Ecological indicators predict functional diversity dynamics following #GlacierRetreat

Results:
Glacier retreat ➡️ Functional richness & functional dispersion ⬇️, functional evenness & functional divergence ⬆️

#AlpineEcosystems | #BiodiversityChange

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Study area with Mont Miné and Ferpècle glaciers in the Valais Alps and the geolocation of the sixteen surveyed plots across four main stages of glacier retreat (Stage 1, Stage 2, Stage 3 and Stage 4), reconstructed using moraines marking the former glacier positions since the 1860s.
December 28, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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🔎 Historical nitrogen (N) enrichment ➡️ Soil microbial communities: Effects & regulatory mechanisms

Results:
#SoilChemistry exerts a more significant influence on bacterial responses to nitrogen disturbances than #RootExudates.

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Changes in relative abundance of bacterial phyla with different life-history strategies in response to nitrogen (N) addition and cessations of N addition, and their correlations with soil pH and metal ion levels.
December 28, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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【🎉Latest accepted article】
Changes in #NutrientResorptionEfficiency with nitrogen and zinc addition and #Mowing in a #MeadowSteppe

#NitrogenAddition | #ZincAddition

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December 27, 2025 at 3:26 PM