Parental environmental effects due to contrasting watering adapt competitive ability, but not drought tolerance, in offspring of a semi-arid annual Brassicaceae

Parental environmental effects due to contrasting watering adapt competitive ability, but not drought tolerance, in offspring of a semi-arid annual Brassicaceae

(2015) Johannes Metz et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Moving forward on facilitation research: response to changing environments and effects on the diversity, functioning and evolution of plant communities

(2014) Santiago Soliveres et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Hidden responses to environmental variation: maternal effects reveal species niche dimensions

(2014) Rachel M. Germain et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Middle-Eastern plant communities tolerate 9 years of drought in a multi-site climate manipulation experiment

(2014) Katja Tielbörger et al.   Nature Communications

From desert to Mediterranean rangelands: will increasing drought and inter-annual rainfall variability affect herbaceous annual primary productivity?

(2013) Carly Golodets et al.   CLIMATIC CHANGE

Mechanisms and Consequences of Water Stress–Induced Parental Effects in an Invasive Annual Grass

(2013) Rachel M. Germain et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PLANT SCIENCES

Parental environments and interactions with conspecifics alter salinity tolerance of offspring in the annualMedicago truncatula

(2013) Brenna M. Castro et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Transgenerational soil-mediated differences between plants experienced or naïve to a grass invasion

(2013) Anna Deck et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Adaptive Transgenerational Plasticity in an Annual Plant: Grandparental and Parental Drought Stress Enhance Performance of Seedlings in Dry Soil

(2012) Jacob J. Herman et al.   INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY

Relationships Between Flowering Time and Rainfall Gradients Across Mediterranean-Desert Transects

(2012) Jaime Kigel et al.   Israel Journal of Ecology & Evolution

Maternal warming affects early life stages of an invasive thistle

(2012) R. Zhang et al.   PLANT BIOLOGY

Transgenerational defense induction and epigenetic inheritance in plants

(2012) Liza M. Holeski et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Seed mass and dormancy of annual plant populations and communities decreases with aridity and rainfall predictability

(2011) Danny Harel et al.   BASIC AND APPLIED ECOLOGY

Maternal fecundity does not affect offspring germination – An empirical test of the sibling competition hypothesis

(2011) A. Eberhart et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Adaptive Transgenerational Plasticity in Plants: Case Studies, Mechanisms, and Implications for Natural Populations

(2011) Jacob J. Herman et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

Dispersal-Dormancy Relationships in Annual Plants: Putting Model Predictions to the Test

(2010) Wolfgang Siewert et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Evolvability of between-year seed dormancy in populations along an aridity gradient

(2010) CHRISTIAN LAMPEI et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

SYNTHESIS: The role of adaptive trans-generational plasticity in biological invasions of plants

(2010) Andrew R. Dyer et al.   Evolutionary Applications

An experimental test for effects of the maternal environment on delayed germination

(2010) Katja Tielbörger et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Plant survival in relation to seed size along environmental gradients: a long-term study from semi-arid and Mediterranean annual plant communities

(2010) Johannes Metz et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Adaptive epigenetic memory of ancestral temperature regime in Arabidopsis thalianaThis paper is one of a selection of papers published in a Special Issue from the National Research Council of Canada – Plant Biotechnology Institute.

(2009) C. A. Whittle et al.   Botany

Contrasting patterns of transgenerational plasticity in ecologically distinct congeners

(2009) Sonia E. Sultan et al.   ECOLOGY

Competition and a short growing season lead to ecotypic differentiation at the two extremes of the ecological range

(2009) Pierre Liancourt et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Genotype and maternal environment affect belowground interactions betweenArabidopsis thalianaand its competitors

(2009) Oliver Bossdorf et al.   OIKOS