Flowering plants exhibit two principal life-history strategies: annuality (living and
reproducing in one year) and perenniality (living more than one year). The advantages of …

Aim Seed traits related to recruitment have direct relevance for plant fitness and persistence.
Trait variation in time and among populations may increase species resilience and …

Symbioses are ubiquitous in nature and influence individual plants and populations. Orchids
have life history stages that depend fully or partially on fungi for carbon and other essential …

Life‐history strategies can buffer individuals and populations from environmental variability.
For instance, it is possible that asynchronous dynamics among different life histories can …

In variable environments, organisms must have strategies to ensure fitness as conditions
change. For plants, germination can time emergence with favourable conditions for later …

Terrestrial orchid life-cycles are complex and dependent on pollinators and mycorrhizal
associates. Worldwide, orchid populations are declining because of urbanization …

The Asteraceae with up to 30,000 species occurs on all continents except Antarctica and in
all major vegetation zones on earth. Our primary aim was to consider cypselae dormancy …

In a variable world, plants must have strategies to deal with environmental conditions as
they change. Understanding these strategies is critical since climate change not only affects …

Vegetative dormancy, that is the temporary absence of aboveground growth for≥ 1 year, is
paradoxical, because plants cannot photosynthesise or flower during dormant periods. We …

Identifying and quantifying the mechanisms influencing species coexistence remains a
major challenge for the study of community ecology. These mechanisms, which stem from …