Plants are exposed to heterogeneity in the environment where new stress factors (ie, climate
change, land use change, and invasiveness) are introduced, and where inter‐and …

Much research has been devoted to identify the conditions under which selection favours
flexible individuals or genotypes that are able to modify their growth, development and …

Over the past decade, advances in both molecular developmental biology and evolutionary
ecology have made possible a new understanding of organisms as dynamic systems …

Species range limits involve many aspects of evolution and ecology, from species
distribution and abundance to the evolution of niches. Theory suggests myriad processes by …

Invasion biologists often suggest that phenotypic plasticity plays an important role in
successful plant invasions. Assuming that plasticity enhances ecological niche breadth and …

Background The central thesis of plant ecology is that climate determines the global
distribution of vegetation. Within a vegetation type, however, finer‐scale environmental …

Allocation is one of the central concepts in modern ecology, providing the basis for different
strategies. Allocation in plants has been conceptualized as a proportional or ratio-driven …

Summary 1 Global change and emerging concepts in ecology and evolution are leading to a
growing interest in phenotypic plasticity (PP), the environmentally contingent trait expression …

Niche complementarity, in which coexisting species use different forms of a resource, has
been widely invoked to explain some of the most debated patterns in ecology, including …

Publisher Summary This chapter discusses the modern ecological and evolutionary contexts
of the evolutionary physiology in insects and provides a survey of sources of environmental …