Principles of seed banks and the emergence of complexity from dormancy

JT Lennon, F den Hollander… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Across the tree of life, populations have evolved the capacity to contend with suboptimal
conditions by engaging in dormancy, whereby individuals enter a reversible state of reduced …

Modes of response to environmental change and the elusive empirical evidence for bet hedging

AM Simons - Proceedings of the Royal Society B …, 2011 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Uncertainty is a problem not only in human decision-making, but is a prevalent quality of
natural environments and thus requires evolutionary response. Unpredictable natural …

土壤种子库的研究进展及若干研究热点

于顺利, 蒋高明 - 植物生态学报, 2003 - plant-ecology.com
土壤种子库是指存在于表层土壤(包括凋落物) 中的有生命的种子. 土壤种子库的研究已是植物
生态学研究不可缺少的一部分, 现已成为植物种群生态学中比较活跃的领域 …

Evolutionary bet-hedging in the real world: empirical evidence and challenges revealed by plants

DZ Childs, CJE Metcalf, M Rees - Proceedings of the …, 2010 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Understanding the adaptations that allow species to live in temporally variable environments
is essential for predicting how they may respond to future environmental change. Variation …

Extreme environmental change and evolution

AA Hoffmann, PA Parsons - 1997 - books.google.com
Most natural populations intermittently experience extremely stressful conditions. This book
discusses how such conditions can cause periods of intense selection, increasing both …

The long‐term persistence of phytoplankton resting stages in aquatic 'seed banks'

M Ellegaard, S Ribeiro - Biological Reviews, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
In the past decade, research on long‐term persistence of phytoplankton resting stages has
intensified. Simultaneously, insight into life‐cycle variability in the diverse groups of …

Seed banks in desert annuals: implications for persistence and coexistence in variable environments

CE Pake, DL Venable - Ecology, 1996 - Wiley Online Library
It is widely believed that desert annual plants maintain between—year seed banks, yet few
field studies actually have measured the proportion of the viable seed bank that remains …

Seed germination in desert annuals: an empirical test of adaptive bet hedging

MJ Clauss, DL Venable - The American Naturalist, 2000 - journals.uchicago.edu
Temporal variability in survivorship and reproduction is predicted to affect the evolution of
life-history characters. Desert annual plants experience temporal variation in reproductive …

[图书][B] Survival strategies of annual desert plants

Y Gutterman - 2012 - books.google.com
Annual desert plant species of unrelated taxa in the Negev Desert of Israel have developed
complementary sets of adaptations and survival strategies as ecological equivalents with …

Climate change and bet‐hedging: interactions between increased soil temperatures and seed bank persistence

MKJ Ooi, TD Auld, AJ Denham - Global Change Biology, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
In order to predict the long‐term consequences of climate change, it is necessary to link
future environmental changes to mechanisms that control plant population processes. This …