Background Plants condition the soil in which they grow, thereby altering the performance of
subsequent plants growing in this soil. This phenomenon, known as plant-soil feedback …

Ecological drift causes species abundances to fluctuate randomly, lowering diversity within
communities and increasing differences among otherwise equivalent communities. Despite …

The tradeoff between offspring size and number is ubiquitous and manifestly similar in
plants and animals despite fundamental differences between the evolutionary histories of …

PREMISE OF THE STUDY: The phenotype of an individual can be modified by the
environment experienced by its predecessors, a phenomenon called transgenerational or …

Evolutionary biologists since Darwin have hypothesized that closely related species
compete more intensely and are therefore less likely to coexist. However, recent theory …

Transgenerational environmental effects can trigger strong phenotypic variation. However, it
is unclear how cues from different preceding generations interact. Also, little is known about …

The UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration calls for upscaling restoration efforts, but many
terrestrial restoration projects are constrained by seed availability. To overcome these …

Environmentally induced epigenetic variation has been recently recognized as a possible
mechanism allowing plants to rapidly adapt to novel conditions. Despite increasing …

Ecological theory produces opposing predictions about whether differences in the timing of
life-history transitions, or “phenology,” promote or limit coexistence. Phenological separation …

In spite of the increasing number of studies on the importance of transgenerational plasticity
for species response to novel environments, its effects on species ability to respond to …