Flowering plants exhibit two principal life-history strategies: annuality (living and
reproducing in one year) and perenniality (living more than one year). The advantages of …

The floral initiation in angiosperms is a complex process influenced by endogenous and
exogenous signals. With this approach, we aim to provide a comprehensive review to …

The evolution of annual or perennial strategies in flowering plants likely depends on a broad
array of temperature and precipitation variables. Previous documented climate life‐history …

Despite most angiosperms being perennial, once-flowering annuals have evolved multiple
times independently, making life history traits among the most labile trait syndromes in …

Rapid diversification of a group is often associated with exploiting an ecological opportunity
and/or the evolution of a key innovation. However, how the interplay of such abiotic and …

To compensate for their sessile nature, plants have evolved sophisticated mechanisms
enabling them to adapt to ever-changing environments. One such prominent feature is the …

Premise Plants have evolved different ecological strategies in response to environmental
challenges, and a higher lability of such strategies is more common in plant groups that …

Water availability is perhaps the greatest environmental determinant of plant yield and
fitness. However, our understanding of plant-water relations is limited because—like many …

The increase in species number from poles to the equator is one of the most fundamental
patterns in ecology. Although several hypotheses have been proposed, there is a lack of …

Annual species show traits, such as shortleaf lifetimes, higher specific leaf area, and leaf
nutrient concentrations, that provided a more rapid resource acquisition compared to …