ArticleEcology letters2020
Optimal germination timing in unpredictable environments: the importance of dormancy for both among- and within-season variation.
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- Regeneration Strategies in Seed Plants: A Continuum Shaping Survival.Ecology and evolution · 2026Review
- Adaptation to Environmental Variability Shapes Dormancy inbioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Adaptive responses to environmental variability in rotifers: Integrating plasticity and bet hedging in dormancy exit.Ecology · 2026Article
- Recruitment in variable environments: plasticity and bet hedging in the timing of seed germination in three closely related species.Annals of botany · 2026Article
- Seedling size affects the strategy of dune seedlings responding to rainfall variation.Annals of botany · 2025Article
- A Game of Life with dormancy.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2025Article
- A review of plant phenolics and endozoochory.Ecology and evolution · 2024Review
- Seed germination thermal niche differs among nine populations of an annual plant: A modeling approach.Ecology and evolution · 2022Article
- Dynamic morphological plasticity in response to emergence timing inPlant-environment interactions (Hoboken, N.J.) · 2022Article
- Global change impacts on arid zone ecosystems: Seedling establishment processes are threatened by temperature and water stress.Ecology and evolution · 2021Article
- Ecological, (epi)genetic and physiological aspects of bet-hedging in angiosperms.Plant reproduction · 2021Review
- Physical Dormancy Release inPlants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Article
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Abstract
For organisms living in unpredictable environments, timing important life-history events is challenging. One way to deal with uncertainty is to spread the emergence of offspring across multiple years via dormancy. However, timing of emergence is not only important among years, but also within each growing season. Here, we study the evolutionary interactions between germination strategies that deal with among- and within-season uncertainty. We use a modelling approach that considers among-season dormancy and within-season germination phenology of annual plants as potentially independent traits and study their separate and joint evolution in a variable environment. We find that higher among-season dormancy selects for earlier germination within the growing season. Furthermore, our results indicate that more unpredictable natural environments can counter-intuitively select for less risk-spreading within the season. Furthermore, strong priority effects select for earlier within-season germination phenology which in turn increases the need for bet hedging through among-season dormancy.
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