ArticleNature ecology & evolution2026
Growth form and lifespan of herbaceous species mediate the role of traits in short-term drought response.
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- Drought Stress Mediated Changes in Food Crops: Mechanisms and Remediation Strategies.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026Review
- Carbon Gain, Carbon Use, and Persistence: How Elevated CO₂ and Warming Reshape High-Elevation Plants.Plant, cell & environment · 2026Review
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Samantha J WorthyDepartment of Evolution and Ecology, University of California, Davis, CA, USA. sworthy@holdenfg.org.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0414-2607
Justin C LuongDepartment of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2118-4788
Brooke E WainwrightDepartment of Plant Sciences, University of California, Davis, CA, USA.
Jonathan AguiñagaDepartment of Evolution and Ecology, University of California, Davis, CA, USA.
Harald AugeDepartment of Community Ecology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research-UFZ, Halle, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7432-8453
Anca C BarcuDepartment of Plant Sciences, University of California, Davis, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0004-6966-1621
Amgaa BatbaatarDepartment of Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
Karen H BeardDepartment of Wildland Resources and the Ecology Center, Utah State University, Logan, UT, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4997-2495
Edward W BorkDepartment of Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
Katherine E BraffordDepartment of Plant Sciences, University of California, Davis, CA, USA.
Kerry M ByrneDepartment of Environmental Science and Management, California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt, Arcata, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0003-5611-0620
James F CahillDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
Michele CarbognaniDepartment of Chemistry, Life Sciences and Environmental Sustainability, University of Parma, Parma, Italy.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7701-9859
Cameron N CarlyleDepartment of Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4753-5945
Karen CastillioniDepartment of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, USA.
Manjunatha H ChandregowdaHawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Penrith, New South Wales, Australia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9767-2457
Scott X ChangDepartment of Renewable Resources, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7624-439X
Jeff ChieppaHawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Penrith, New South Wales, Australia.
Amber C ChurchillDepartment of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9136-8131
Jennifer E CribbsDepartment of Plant Sciences, University of California, Davis, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7384-172X
Thomas DeolaDisturbance Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth Center of Ecology and Environmental Research (BayCEER), Bayreuth, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0002-8416-3132
Jeffrey S DukesDepartment of Global Ecology, Carnegie Institution for Science, Stanford, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9482-7743
Anne EbelingInstitute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Jena, Jena, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3221-4017
Nico EisenhauerGerman Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jenna-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0371-6720
Elise C ElwoodDepartment of Evolution and Ecology, University of California, Davis, CA, USA.
Regina A FairbanksDepartment of Evolution and Ecology, University of California, Davis, CA, USA.
T'ai G W ForteDepartment of Chemistry, Life Sciences and Environmental Sustainability, University of Parma, Parma, Italy.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8685-5872
Flavia A FunkCentro de Recursos Naturales Renovables de la Zona Semiárida (CERZOS)-Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas de la República Argentina (CONICET), Bahía Blanca, Argentina.
Anjum K GujralDepartment of Plant Sciences, University of California, Davis, CA, USA.
Siri V HaugumDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway.
Yann HautierEcology and Biodiversity Group, Department of Biology, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands.
Hugh A L HenryDepartment of Biology, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada.
Forest IsbellDepartment of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9689-769X
Anke JentschDisturbance Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth Center of Ecology and Environmental Research (BayCEER), Bayreuth, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2345-8300
Samuel E JordanChelan-Douglas Land Trust, Wenatchee, WA, USA.
Sally E KoernerDepartment of Biology, University of North Carolina Greensboro, Greensboro, NC, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6403-7513
Juergen KreylingInstitute of Botany and Landscape Ecology, Department of Experimental Plant Ecology, University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8489-7289
György Kröel-DulayHUN-REN Centre for Ecological Research, Institute of Ecology and Botany, Vácrátót, Hungary.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0695-1232
Andrew KulmatiskiDepartment of Wildland Resources and the Ecology Center, Utah State University, Logan, UT, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9977-5508
Eric G LambDepartment of Plant Sciences, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5201-4541
Michael E LoikDepartment of Environmental Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA, USA.
María G LongoLicenciatura en Diseño del Paisaje, Centro Universitario Regional Este, Universidad de la República Uruguay, Rocha, Uruguay.
Alejandro LoydiCentro de Recursos Naturales Renovables de la Zona Semiárida (CERZOS)-Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas de la República Argentina (CONICET), Bahía Blanca, Argentina.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0306-905X
Dylan J MacArthur-WaltzCenter for Population Biology, University of California, Davis, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7704-2856
Clara MilanoCentro de Recursos Naturales Renovables de la Zona Semiárida (CERZOS)-Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas de la República Argentina (CONICET), Bahía Blanca, Argentina.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9246-4421
John W MorganDepartment of Ecological, Plant and Animal Sciences, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Akira S MoriResearch Center for Advanced Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8422-1198
Seth M MunsonUS Geological Survey, Southwest Biological Science Center, Flagstaff, AZ, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2736-6374
Gregory S NewmanSchool of Biological Sciences, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA.
Uffe N NielsenHawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Penrith, New South Wales, Australia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2400-7453
Rory C O'ConnorUSDA-ARS, Range and Meadow Forage Management Research Unit, Burns, OR, USA.
Timothy J OhlertDepartment of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA.
Brooke B OsborneDepartment of Environment and Society, Utah State University, Logan, UT, USA.
Rafael OtfinowskiDepartment of Biology, The University of Winnipeg, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8242-5947
Meelis PärtelInstitute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5874-0138
Pablo L PeriInstituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA)-Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia Austral-CONICET, Río Gallegos, Argentina.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5398-4408
Guadalupe PeterUniversidad Nacional de Río Negro, Centro de Estudios Ambientales desde la NorPatagonia (CEANPa), Sede Atlántica-CONICET, Viedma, Argentina.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7792-7045
Alessandro PetragliaDepartment of Chemistry, Life Sciences and Environmental Sustainability, University of Parma, Parma, Italy.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4632-2251
Juan M Piñeiro-GuerraDepartamento de Modelización Estadística de Datos e Inteligencia Artificial, Centro Universitario Regional Este, Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay.
Laura W PlougheSouthern Colorado Plateau Network, Inventory and Monitoring Division, National Park Service, Flagstaff, AZ, USA.
Cristy Portales-ReyesDepartment of Biology, Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MO, USA.
Sally A PowerHawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Penrith, New South Wales, Australia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2723-8671
Suzanne M ProberCommonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) Environment, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia.
Yolanda PueyoDepartamento de Biodiversidad y Restauración, Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología (IPE), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Zaragoza, Spain.
Christiane RoscherGerman Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jenna-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9301-7909
Bráulio A SantosDepartamento de Sistemática e Ecologia, Universidade Federal da Paraíba, João Pessoa, Brazil.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6046-4024
Melinda D SmithDepartment of Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4920-6985
Lara A SouzaSchool of Biological Sciences, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6005-8667
Andreas StampfliSchool of Agricultural, Forest and Food Sciences, Bern University of Applied Sciences, Zollikofen, Switzerland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5517-1363
Rachel J StandishSchool of Environmental and Conservation Sciences, Murdoch University, Perth, Western Australia, Australia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8118-1904
Marie SünnemannGerman Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jenna-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5385-258X
Michelle J TedderSchool of Agriculture and Science, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8021-0929
Pål ThorvaldsenNorwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research (NIBIO), Trondheim, Norway.
Katja TielbörgerInstitute of Ecology and Evolution, Plant Ecology Group, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0003-7767-1734
Alejandro ValdecantosDepartamento de Ecología, Universidad de Alicante, Alicante, Spain.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3761-3500
Liesbeth van den BrinkInstitute of Ecology and Evolution, Plant Ecology Group, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0313-8147
Vigdis VandvikDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4651-4798
Liv G VelleNorwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research (NIBIO), Trondheim, Norway.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0433-5337
Jennifer L WilliamsDepartment of Geography, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4497-4961
Amelia A WolfDepartment of Integrative Biology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7660-3455
Laura YahdjianInstituto de Investigaciones Fisiológicas y Ecológicas Vinculadas a la Agricultura (IFEVA), CONICET, Facultad de Agronomía, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9635-1221
Alyssa L YoungDepartment of Biology, University of North Carolina Greensboro, Greensboro, NC, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2373-4264
Juan M ZeberioUniversidad Nacional de Río Negro, Centro de Estudios Ambientales desde la NorPatagonia (CEANPa), Sede Atlántica-CONICET, Viedma, Argentina.
Michaela ZeiterSchool of Agricultural, Forest and Food Sciences, Bern University of Applied Sciences, Zollikofen, Switzerland.
Richard P PhillipsDepartment of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA. rpp6@iu.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1345-4138
Jennifer L FunkDepartment of Plant Sciences, University of California, Davis, CA, USA. funk@ucdavis.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1916-5513
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Abstract
Increased climate variability is expected to intensify short-term drought events. Plants have evolved stress tolerance strategies involving trade-offs in resource conservation, mycorrhizal collaboration and plant size, yet how these strategies promote drought resistance across different herbaceous plant groups remains unknown. Leveraging 63 globally distributed grassland and shrubland sites from the International Drought Experiment, we identified plant traits linked to drought resistance in 661 populations of 421 species after 1 year of extreme drought. We assessed how traits, site precipitation and drought severity affected cover change across growth forms and lifespans, and how trait-environment interactions influenced drought resistance. Across all species, leaf N (an acquisitive trait) was associated with drought resistance, whereas in forbs, drought resistance was also associated with a conservative root trait and plant size. In addition, interactions among traits mediated drought resistance; root traits predicted performance only in concert with other traits. Environmental variables influenced trait effects on drought resistance, notably for annuals in wetter sites, suggesting that drought-escape strategies in annuals may be advantageous only under mild stress. Our study highlights variability in traits that predict drought resistance across herbaceous plant groups, emphasizing the importance of species context, environmental stress and the selection of traits in research and management.
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