Does a trade‐off between growth plasticity and resource conservatism mediate post‐fire shrubland responses to rainfall seasonality?

Does a tradeoff between trait plasticity and resource conservatism contribute to the maintenance of alternative stable states?

(2019) Simon C. Power et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Analysis of spatio-temporal rainfall trends across southern African biomes between 1981 and 2016

(2019) Farai Maxwell Marumbwa et al.   PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY OF THE EARTH

Post-fire nitrogen balance of Mediterranean shrublands: direct combustion losses versus gaseous and leaching losses from the post-fire soil mineral nitrogen flush

(2018) M Dannenmann et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Developmental phenotypic plasticity helps bridge stochastic weather events associated with climate change

(2018) Warren Burggren   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Extensive drought-associated plant mortality as an agent of type-conversion in chaparral shrublands

(2018) Anna L. Jacobsen et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Drought differentially affects the post-fire dynamics of seeders and resprouters in a Mediterranean shrubland

(2018) Antonio Parra et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Structural determinants of increased susceptibility to dehydration-induced cavitation in post-fire resprouting chaparral shrubs

(2016) Anna L. Jacobsen et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

Constraints on the evolution of phenotypic plasticity: limits and costs of phenotype and plasticity

(2015) C J Murren et al.   HEREDITY

Towards understanding resprouting at the global scale

(2015) Juli G. Pausas et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Determinants of the Fynbos/Succulent Karoo biome boundary: Insights from a reciprocal transplant experiment

(2015) K.J. Esler et al.   SOUTH AFRICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

The Consequences of Precipitation Seasonality for Mediterranean-Ecosystem Vegetation of South Africa

(2015) Michael D. Cramer et al.   PLoS One

Mortality of resprouting chaparral shrubs after a fire and during a record drought: physiological mechanisms and demographic consequences

(2013) R. Brandon Pratt et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Physiological differences explain the co-existence of different regeneration strategies in Mediterranean ecosystems

(2013) Alberto Vilagrosa et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

A method for accounting for maintenance costs in flux balance analysis improves the prediction of plant cell metabolic phenotypes under stress conditions

(2013) C. Y. Maurice Cheung et al.   PLANT JOURNAL

Phylogenetic niche conservatism: what are the underlying evolutionary and ecological causes?

(2012) Michael D. Crisp et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Diverse functional responses to drought in a Mediterranean-type shrubland in South Africa

(2012) A. G. West et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Nitrogen acquisition by annual and perennial grass seedlings: testing the roles of performance and plasticity to explain plant invasion

(2011) A. J. Leffler et al.   PLANT ECOLOGY

ORIGINS AND CONSEQUENCES OF SERPENTINE ENDEMISM IN THE CALIFORNIA FLORA

(2010) Brian L. Anacker et al.   EVOLUTION

Seasonal physiological plasticity and recovery capacity after summer stress in Mediterranean scrub communities

(2010) M. Zunzunegui et al.   PLANT ECOLOGY

Plant phenotypic plasticity in a changing climate

(2010) A.B. Nicotra et al.   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

Experimental drought and warming decrease diversity and slow down post-fire succession in a Mediterranean shrubland

(2009) Patricia Prieto et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Climate Change, Habitat Loss, Protected Areas and the Climate Adaptation Potential of Species in Mediterranean Ecosystems Worldwide

(2009) Kirk R. Klausmeyer et al.   PLoS One

Fire season effects on the recruitment of non-sprouting serotinous Proteaceae in the eastern (bimodal rainfall) fynbos biome, South Africa

(2008) STEFFEN HEELEMANN et al.   AUSTRAL ECOLOGY

Root of edaphically controlled Proteaceae turnover on the Agulhas Plain, South Africa: phosphate uptake regulation and growth

(2008) MICHAEL W. SHANE et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT