Plant communities experience impacts of increasing numbers global change factors (e.g., warming, eutrophication, pollution). Consequently, unpredictable effects could arise. However, information about multi-factor on plant is scarce. To test plant-community responses to multiple (GCFs), we subjected sown and transplanted-seedling (0, 1, 2, 4, 6) co-acting GCFs, assessed individual GCFs community composition productivity. GCF number reduced species diversity evenness both types, whereas none...

Abstract Artificial light at night has rapidly increased during the last century, and could potentially affect many ecological processes, from individuals via communities to entire ecosystems. Recent research shown that artificial may not only behaviour of animals but also growth plants vegetation composition. However, it is known yet whether other global change components such as plant invasions. Here, we tested how naturalized alien respond night, particularly widely species differ...

Artificial light at night (ALAN) has been and still is rapidly spreading become an important component of global change. Although numerous studies have tested its potential biological ecological impacts on animals, very few whether it affects alien native plants differently. Furthermore, common plant species, particularly are often found to benefit more from additional resources than rare species. Whether this also the case with regard increasing due ALAN unknown. Here, we how affected...

Abstract Microplastics can affect their surroundings physically and chemically, resulting in diverse effects on plant-soil systems. Similar to other substances (e.g. nutrients water), microplastics the environment occur patches. Such heterogeneous distributions could plant responses plastic pollution. Yet, this has remained untested. We conducted a multispecies experiment including 29 herbaceous species three different microplastic treatments (a control without microplastics, homogeneous...

Abstract Research Highlight : Lozano, Y. M., Gordillo, H., Waldmann, W., & Rillig, M. C. (2023). Photodegradation modifies microplastic effects on soil properties and plant performance. Journal of Applied Ecology , https://doi.org/10.1111/1365‐2664.14514 . Plastics are omnipresent in daily life so is plastic waste the environment. Once there, remains for a long time, slowly disintegrating into ever smaller particles including microplastics (particles <5 mm). Simultaneously, physical...

Abstract Artificial light at night (ALAN) has been and still is rapidly spreading, become an important component of global change. Although numerous studies have tested its potential biological ecological impacts on animals, fewer plants, very few whether it affects alien native plants differently. Furthermore, common plant species, particularly are often found to benefit more from additional resources than rare species. Whether this also the case with regard increasing due ALAN unknown....

<title>Abstract</title> Background and aims Microplastics affect plant growth change abiotic biotic soil properties, such as structure or soil-community composition. However, how microplastics plant-soil interactions, feedbacks (PSFs), is still poorly understood. Here, we tested artificial particles heterospecific PSFs, depending on an intact depleted community. Methods We conducted a two-phase-greenhouse experiment using <italic>Centaurea jacea</italic> to condition containing initially...