Scientists studied Cistus albidus (white-leaved rockrose), a shrub that can only regenerate from seed after fire, no resprouting, no second chances. They experimentally extended summer drought either into autumn or into the following spring, and tracked plants for 6 years. 🌱 (3/6)
🔥🌿 Climate change is making summers longer and drier in Mediterranean ecosystems. That means less rain in autumn and spring, the exact seasons plants need most to recover after a wildfire. But what happens when that rain comes too late… or too early? (2/6)
Annals of Botany
Annals of Botany
🔥ADVANCE ACCESS🔥: Evolutionary history, taxonomy, and ecology of Neotropical Cissus (Vitaceae) in the biotic transition zone of Mexico and Central America
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🔥ADVANCE ACCESS🔥: Clonality, management, and geography shape genetic structure in a perennial species with restricted distribution
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🎉 Great news! The paper ‘Drought during a key post-fire stage for recovery success filters plants with enhanced fitness under water stress in a Mediterranean obligate seeder’ in @annbot by @davidsalesad.bsky.social & @vmsantana.bsky.social is now #free for 2 weeks 🧵(1/6)
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🔥ADVANCE ACCESS🔥: Root traits and soil phosphorus gradients determine crop-specific responsiveness to arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi
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🌍This has big implications for Mediterranean ecosystems worldwide. As climate shifts, the when of drought during post-fire recovery could determine which plants survive, and ultimately reshape entire plant communities for the following years. (6/6)
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But when drought was pushed into spring instead? The opposite happened. Timing, it turns out, matters just as much as the drought itself, maybe more than factors like how crowded the plants are. (5/6)
The results were striking. Plants that faced drought in their first post-fire autumn ended up taller, more productive and more drought-tolerant years later. Surviving a hard start seems to select tougher individuals. 💪 (4/6)
AbstractBackground and Aims. Genetic information is essential for understanding evolutionary processes across different temporal scales, particularly those
AbstractBackground and aims. Leaf venation networks are central to leaf water and nutrient transport, and differences in venation topology may impose long-
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AbstractBackground and aims. Despite growing recognition of phosphorus (P) acquisition via arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF), the drivers of crop-specific
