Many terrestrial ecosystems are fire prone, such that their composition and structure are
largely due to their fire regime. Regions subject to regular fire have exceptionally high levels …

Community-level genetic specificity results when individual genotypes or populations of the
same species support different communities. Our review of the literature shows that genetic …

Pine cones that remain closed and retain seeds until fire causes the cones to open (cone
serotiny) represent a key adaptive trait in a variety of pine species. In lodgepole pine, there …

Squirrels of the World, written by scientists with more than 100 years of collective experience
studying these popular mammals, is the first comprehensive examination of all 285 species …

Background Massively parallel sequencing of cDNA is now an efficient route for generating
enormous sequence collections that represent expressed genes. This approach provides a …

Environmental change is accelerating in the 21st century, but how multiple drivers may
interact to alter forest resilience remains uncertain. In forests affected by large high‐severity …

Mast seeding involves the episodic and synchronous production of large seed crops by
perennial plants. The predator satiation hypothesis proposes that mast seeding maximizes …

The metacommunity framework predicts that local coexistence depends on the outcome of
local species interactions and regional migration. In analogous fashion, spatial structure …

Abstract Pines (n= 121 species) are important elements of forest ecosystems. They are
economically and ecologically valuable and are often at the center of efforts to manage …

Aim Climate change poses significant challenges for tree species, which are slow to adapt
and migrate. Insight into genetic and phenotypic variation under current landscape …