Climate is a potent selective force in natural populations, yet the importance of adaptation in
the response of plant species to past climate change has been questioned. As many species …

Environmental changes are expected to alter both the distribution and the abundance of
organisms. A disproportionate amount of past work has focused on distribution only, either …

Seed dispersal, or the movement of diaspores away from the parent location, is a multiscale,
multipartner process that depends on the interaction of plant life history with vector …

Plant defence theory provides a robust framework for understanding interactions between
plants and antagonists, and for interpreting broad patterns in the functional‐trait composition …

Local, short-to medium-term studies make clear that white-tailed deer can greatly suppress
tree growth and survival in palatable tree species. To assess how deer have broadly …

A fundamental goal of ecology is to predict how strongly one species affects the abundance
of another. However, our ability to do so is hindered by the fact that interaction outcomes are …

Post‐dispersal seed predators contribute substantially to seed loss across many
ecosystems. Most research has focused on understanding sources of variation in seed loss …

Context Managing forests under climate change requires adaptation. The adaptive capacity
of forest tree populations is huge but not limitless. Integrating evolutionary considerations …

Plants produce an enormous diversity of secondary metabolites, but the evolutionary
mechanisms that maintain this diversity are still unclear. The interaction diversity hypothesis …

Invasive plants may compete with native plants by increasing the pressure of native
consumers, a mechanism known as “apparent competition.” Apparent competition can be as …