Increases in graminoids after three decades of change in the High Arctic

JA Schaefer - Polar Research, 2023 - polarresearch.net
Climate change portends serious implications for Arctic vegetation. Understanding these
effects is likely to be enhanced with long-term observations from permanent plots. I …

Latitudinal clines in the phenology of floral display associated with adaptive evolution during a biological invasion

MN Akbar, DR Moskoff, SCH Barrett, RI Colautti - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Premise: The timing and pattern of flowering--flowering phenology--strongly influences
reproductive success in plants. Days to first flower is easy to quantify and widely used to …

Introduction to special issue: the ecology and evolution of plants in extreme environments

FX Picó, RJ Abbott, LD Llambi… - Plant Ecology & …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
In plant ecology, extreme environments are those that pose physiological or other limitations
to plant growth, especially for non-adapted taxa. In these environments, the severity of …

Phenological Trade-Offs Under Biotic and Abiotic Selection in Introduced Populations of Lythrum Salicaria

MN Akbar - 2024 - search.proquest.com
Evolutionary constraints imposed by a life history trade-off between age and size at maturity
are common to a wide range of taxa. However, studies measuring phenotypic selection in …