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 …

In unpredictably varying environments, strategies that have a reduced variance in fitness
can invade a population consisting of individuals that on average do better. Such strategies …

In bet hedging, organisms sacrifice short‐term success to reduce the long‐term variance in
success. Delayed germination is the classic example of bet hedging, in which a fraction of …

Community ecology recognises today that local biological communities are not only affected
by local biotic interactions and abiotic environmental conditions, but also by regional …

Dispersal is essential for species to survive the threats of habitat destruction and climate
change. Combining descriptions of dispersal ability with those of landscape structure, the …

This chapter covers the types and definitions of soil seed banks; evolution of soil seed
reservoirs as affected by seed characteristics (seed density and size), and biotic (including …

Seed movement and delayed germination have long been thought to represent alternative
risk‐spreading strategies, but current evidence covers limited scales and yields mixed …

Recent research has highlighted interdependencies between dispersal and other life‐
history traits, ie dispersal syndromes, thereby revealing constraints on the evolution of …

Investigating how seed germination of multiple species in an ecosystem responds to
environmental conditions is crucial for understanding the mechanisms for community …

At some stage in their life cycle, most zooplankton in temporary waters produce dormant
eggs that assemble in a persistent egg bank to cope with unfavourable conditions. As part of …