The benefits of masting (volatile, quasi-synchronous seed production at lagged intervals)
include satiation of seed predators, but these benefits come with a cost to mutualist pollen …

Masting, a variable and synchronized variation in reproductive effort is a prevalent strategy
among perennial plants, but the factors leading to interspecific differences in masting remain …

Hormesis (low-dose stimulation and high-dose inhibition) can be accompanied by hormetic
trade-offs, that is, stimulation of some traits and inhibition (trade-off 1) or invariability (trade …

Proline accumulation represents one of mechanisms used by plants to prevent the adverse
consequences of water stress. The effects of increased proline levels in response to drought …

Seed production in many plants is characterized by large interannual variation, which is
synchronized at subcontinental scales in some species but local in others. The reproductive …

The fundamental trade‐off between current and future reproduction has long been
considered to result in a tendency for species that can grow large to begin reproduction at a …

Biotic interactions in plant communities affect individual fitness and community dynamics.
Interactions between plants vary in space, over time and with organisational complexity. Yet …

Climate warming has induced pronounced shifts in the phenology of alpine plants
worldwide, yet the impact of these changes on plant reproduction remains unclear, although …

Sustainable restoration of degraded ecosystems is a major environmental concern in
several regions of China. Changting is one of the severely affected water-and soil-loss areas …

Understanding post-fire forest recovery is critical to the study of forest carbon dynamics.
Many previous studies have used multispectral imagery to estimate post-fire recovery, yet …