Plant strategies are phenotypes shaped by natural selection that enable populations to
persist in a given environment. Plant strategy theory is essential for understanding the …

How do plants make a living? Some plants are gamblers, others are swindlers. Some plants
are habitual spenders while others are strugglers and miserly savers. Plants have evolved a …

Individuals respond to different environments by developing different phenotypes, which is
generally seen as a mechanism through which individuals can buffer adverse environmental …

Wild plant species provide excellent examples of qualitative traits that evolve in response to
environmental challenges (eg, flower color, heavy metal tolerance, cyanogenesis, and male …

Premise of research. Phylogenetic comparative methods provide a powerful approach for
exploring the macroevolution of plant functional traits. Such approaches can uncover trait …

A plant genotype can potentially exhibit a variety of phenotypes, depending on
environmental conditions. If the quantitative measure of a life history trait is defined as the …

Plants provide unique opportunities to study the mechanistic basis and evolutionary
processes of adaptation to diverse environmental conditions. Complementary laboratory …

Plant traits vary widely across species and underpin differences in ecological strategy.
Despite centuries of interest, the contributions of different evolutionary lineages to modern …

Variation in plant functional traits results from evolutionary and environmental drivers that
operate at a variety of different scales, which makes it a challenge to differentiate among …

The promise of “trait-based” plant ecology is one of generalized prediction across
organizational and spatial scales, independent of taxonomy. This promise is a major reason …