Flowering phenology appears to have a strong genetic component, and may serve as a barrier to hybridization
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Erin Zimmerman
Ecophysiology of early lineage vascular plants
Tropical understory communities are highly diverse, and plants in these environments must optimize functional traits to ensure ecological and evolutionary success. Campany et al. survey the ecophysiology of two spore...
Alex Assiry
Inherent variation of functional traits in winter and summer leaves of Mediterranean seasonal dimorphic species: evidence of a ‘within leaf cohort’ spectrum
Leaf morphological, physiological and biochemical traits tend to vary in a coordinated manner as described by the Leaf Economics Spectrum (LES). Nevertheless, some aspects, such as how the leaf trait variation sources...
William Salter
Active or passive? Specific-leaf-area plasticity responses
Liu et al. conducted a meta-analysis to test the hypothesis that shade-induced increases in specific-leaf-area (SLA) indicate an adaptive plant response to optimizing light capture. They conclude that species with...
botanyone
Predicting photosynthetic light-response curves
Photosynthetic light-response curves describe how leaf photosynthesis changes with light intensity, but they are time-consuming to measure, differ between species and change depending on the growth environment of the...
