"climate"

Climate-driven, but dynamic and complex? A reconciliation of competing hypotheses for species’ distributions

Abstract Estimates of the percentage of species “committed to extinction” by climate change range from 15% to 37%. The question is whether factors other than climate need to be included in models predicting species’ range change. We created …

Fusing tree-ring and forest inventory data to infer influences on tree growth

Abstract Better understanding and prediction of tree growth is important because of the many ecosystem services provided by forests and the uncertainty surrounding how forests will respond to anthropogenic climate change. With the ultimate goal of …

Extreme environments select for reproductive assurance: evidence from evening primroses (Oenothera)

Summary • Competing evolutionary forces shape plant breeding systems (e.g. inbreeding depression, reproductive assurance). Which of these forces prevails in a given population or species is predicted to depend upon such factors as life history, …