Cascading impacts of seed disperser loss on plant communities and ecosystems

HS Rogers, I Donoso, A Traveset… - Annual Review of …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Seed dispersal is key to the persistence and spread of plant populations. Because the
majority of plant species rely on animals to disperse their seeds, global change drivers that …

Sexual systems in the New Zealand angiosperm flora

MS McGlone, SJ Richardson - New Zealand Journal of Botany, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
We present data on sexual systems and associated traits in the New Zealand angiosperm
flora and discuss reasons for the anomalously high levels of gender dimorphism in the flora …

Death caps (Amanita phalloides) frequently establish from sexual spores, but individuals can grow large and live for more than a decade in invaded forests

J Golan, YW Wang, CA Adams, H Cross… - New …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Global change is reshaping Earth's biodiversity, but the changing distributions of
nonpathogenic fungi remain largely undocumented, as do mechanisms enabling invasions …

Functional traits mediate individualistic speciesenvironment distributions at broad spatial scales while finescale species associations remain unpredictable

JJ Beck, D Li, SE Johnson, D Rogers… - American journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Premise Numerous processes influence plant distributions and cooccurrence patterns,
including ecological sorting, limiting similarity, and stochastic effects. To discriminate among …

Asymmetrical pegs in square holes? Functional and phylogenetic determinants of plant community assembly in temperate forest understories

JJ Beck, D Li, SE Johnson, D Rogers, KM Cameron… - BioRxiv, 2020 - biorxiv.org
Despite advances in community assembly theory, uncertainties remain regarding how
ecological and evolutionary processes shape species distributions and communities. We …

Local Adaptation Along a Latitudinal Gradient Contributes to a Novel Life History Transition in Mimulus Ringens

CD Gilmore - 2022 - search.proquest.com
Successful reproduction for sessile organisms is dependent on appropriate responses to
seasonal cues. Life history is an essential strategy within populations, as it determines the …

A large phylo-floristic study on the present and future assembly of the Wisconsin flora–An area unique in North America

KM Cameron - BAUHINIA–Zeitschrift der Basler Botanischen …, 2023 - eterna.unibas.ch
With 1.4 million specimens the Wisconsin State Herbarium (WIS) is one of the largest in the
Americas and Wisconsin offers botanists a unique opportunity to study species representing …