Background Below-ground bud banks have experienced much recent interest due to
discoveries that they (1) account for the majority of seasonal population renewal in many …

Understanding the adaptations that allow species to live in temporally variable environments
is essential for predicting how they may respond to future environmental change. Variation …

The identification of patterns in life-history strategies across the tree of life is essential to our
prediction of population persistence, extinction, and diversification. Plants exhibit a wide …

Although experiments show a positive association between vascular plant and arbuscular
mycorrhizal fungal (AMF) species richness, evidence from natural ecosystems is scarce …

Symbioses are ubiquitous in nature and influence individual plants and populations. Orchids
have life history stages that depend fully or partially on fungi for carbon and other essential …

Geophytes develop underground storage organs, which help them to survive extreme
environments. Besides energy resources for plants and humans, they are widely used for …

Patterns of ageing across the tree of life are much more diverse than previously thought. Yet,
we still do not adequately understand how, why and where across the tree of life a particular …

Although a great deal of research on ornamental geophytes has been conducted since the
beginning of the 1990s, current information has not been comprehensively presented to …

Seed dormancy is genetically determined with substantial environmental influence
mediated, at least in part, by the plant hormone abscisic acid (ABA). The ABA-related …

Variation in plant species richness has been described using only aboveground vegetation.
The species richness of roots and rhizomes has never been compared with aboveground …