Intraspecific trait variation is caused by genetic and plastic responses to environment. This
intraspecific diversity is captured in immense natural history collections, giving us a window …

All organisms experience a series of transitions across their lives, from birth to juvenile, to
reproductive adult, and finally to death. Selection operates strongly on the timing of these …

Climate change is causing the rapid redistribution of vegetation as plant species move to
track their climatic optima. Despite a global trend of upward movement in latitude and …

Plant functional traits can predict community assembly and ecosystem functioning and are
thus widely used in global models of vegetation dynamics and land–climate feedbacks. Still …

The role that different life-history traits may have in the process of adaptation caused by
divergent selection can be assessed by using extensive collections of geographically …

Like many species, the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana exhibits multiple different life
histories in natural environments. We grew mutants impaired in different signaling pathways …

Aim The functional trait composition of plant communities is thought to be determined largely
by climate, but relationships between contemporary trait distributions and climate are often …

Plant traits are useful for predicting how species may respond to environmental change
and/or influence ecosystem properties. Understanding the extent to which traits vary within …

We are now reaching the stage at which specific genetic factors with known physiological
effects can be tied directly and quantitatively to variation in phenology. With such a …

Understanding how natural selection and genetic drift shape biological variation is a central
topic in biology, yet our understanding of the agents of natural selection and their target traits …