Phenotypic plasticity, both within and across generations, is an important mechanism that
organisms use to cope with rapid climate change. While an increasing number of studies …

At some stage in their life cycle, most zooplankton in temporary waters produce dormant
eggs that assemble in a persistent egg bank to cope with unfavourable conditions. As part of …

In variable environments, organisms must have strategies to ensure fitness as conditions
change. For plants, germination can time emergence with favourable conditions for later …

Predicting the impacts of climate change to biological systems requires an understanding of
the ability for species to acclimate to the projected environmental change through …

Global warming is expected to drive some ectothermic species beyond their thermal
tolerance in upcoming decades. Phenotypic plasticity, via developmental or …

Premise The timing of germination has profound impacts on fitness, population dynamics,
and species ranges. Many plants have evolved responses to seasonal environmental cues …

Bet hedging at reproduction is expected to evolve when mothers are exposed to
unpredictable cues for future environmental conditions, whereas transgenerational plasticity …

Background Discussions of phenotypic robustness often consider scenarios where invariant
phenotypes are optimal and assume that developmental mechanisms have evolved to buffer …

For organisms living in unpredictable environments, timing important life‐history events is
challenging. One way to deal with uncertainty is to spread the emergence of offspring across …

Bet‐hedging via between‐year seed dormancy is a costly strategy for plants in
unpredictable environments. Theoretically, fitness costs can be reduced through a parental …