Plants are of fundamental importance to life on Earth. The shapes of leaves, petals and
whole plants are of great significance to plant science, as they can help to distinguish …

Leaf shape is spectacularly diverse. As a major component of plant architecture and an
interface for light capture, gas exchange, and thermoregulation, the potential contributions of …

Paleobotanists have long used models based on leaf size and shape to reconstruct
paleoclimate. However, most models incorporate a single variable or use traits that are not …

Angiosperm leaves manifest a remarkable diversity of shapes that range from
developmental sequences within a shoot and within crown response to microenvironment to …

How will biodiversity loss affect ecosystem functioning, ecosystem services, and human well-
being? In an age of accelerating biodiversity loss, this timely and critical volume summarizes …

We report a time-calibrated stratigraphic section in Colorado that contains unusually
complete fossils of mammals, reptiles, and plants and elucidates the drivers and tempo of …

Leaf morphological traits vary systematically along climatic gradients. However, recent
studies in plant functional ecology have mainly analysed quantitative traits, while numerical …

Leaves are organs sensitive to environmental changes in the process of evolution and may
exhibit phenotypic plasticity as a response to abiotic stress. However, affirmation of leaf …

Plants have profoundly moulded the Earth's climate and the evolutionary trajectory of life.
Far from being'silent witnesses to the passage of time', plants are dynamic components of …

Variation in the size and shape (physiognomy) of leaves has long been correlated to
climate, and paleobotanists have used these correlations to reconstruct paleo‐climate. Most …