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Data from: Resurrected seeds from herbarium specimens reveal rapid evolution of drought resistance in a selfing annual
<p>Premise of study: Increased aridity and drought associated with climate change are exerting unprecedented selection pressures on plant populations. Whether populations can rapidly adapt, and which life history traits might confer increased fitness under drought, remain outstanding questions. </p> <p>Methods: We utilized a resurrection ecology approach, leveraging dormant seeds from herbarium collections to assess whether populations of <em>Plantago patagonica</em> from the semi-arid Colorado Plateau have rapidly evolved in response to approximately ten years of intense drought in the region. We quantified multiple traits associated with drought escape and drought resistance and assessed the survival of ancestors and descendants under simulated drought. </p> <p>Key Results: Descendant populations displayed a significant shift in resource allocation, in which they invested less in reproductive tissues and relatively more in both above- and below-ground vegetative tissues. Plants with greater leaf biomass survived longer under terminal drought; moreover, even after accounting for the effect of increased leaf biomass, descendant seedlings survived drought longer than their ancestors. </p> <p>Conclusions: Our results document rapid adaptive evolution in response to climate change in a selfing annual and suggest that shifts in tissue allocation strategies may underlie adaptive responses to drought in arid or semi-arid environments. This work also illustrates a novel approach, documenting that under specific circumstances, seeds from herbarium specimens may provide an untapped source of dormant propagules for future resurrection experiments.</p>
Supplementary material for: "Seeds adapted to mixed cropping increase yield and drought resistance of cereal-legume mixtures"
<p>Supplementary material for the research article: "Seeds adapted to mixed cropping increase yield and drought resistance of cereal-legume mixtures".</p> <ul> <li>Raw data</li> <li>R analysis code</li> <li>Statistical analysis info: ANOVA and Tukey comparisons tables</li> </ul> <p> </p> <p>Abstract:</p> <p>Cropland diversification through mixed cropping has the potential of achieving a more sustainable agriculture while securing food production. This is of special relevance with climate change and the expected drier growing conditions in the future. Seed adaptation to this cropping method is hypothesised to be a fundamental factor to maximise these benefits, as well as the particular species combined. In this study we compared the performance of four cereal-legume mixed crops (wheat and oat mixed with lupin and lentil in pairs) with their respective monocrops. Each crop was sown using seeds adapted to monoculture and mixed cropping, respectively. Moreover, they were grown under early-season and late-season drought treatments and under control conditions. We measured above-ground vegetative biomass, seed yield and harvest index to evaluate crop production, drought resistance and the effect of seed adaptation on each mixed and monocrop. Our results show that mixed cropping either had a beneficial or neutral effect on crop yield, depending on the species combination and drought conditions, but harvest index was generally higher in monocrops. We also confirmed that seed adaptation to a particular type of cropping is clearly a determining factor in its performance. In accordance with the insurance hypothesis, mixed cropping has the effect of protecting crop yields in the case of a sudden bad performance of one of the species, for example, caused by adverse environmental conditions. It is necessary to focus on effective species combinations which have the best responses to mixed cropping. We show for the first time that wheat-lentil mixtures performed poorly, while wheat-lupin showed the most promising results improving yield and drought resistance. Oat mixed crops did not show differences with the respective monocrops, so they can be a viable cropping option as well and benefit from advantages of crop diversity not measured in this study.</p>
Data from: Limited intraspecific variation in drought resistance along a pronounced tropical rainfall gradient
<p>Assessing within-species variation in response to drought is crucial for predicting species responses to climate change and informing restoration and conservation efforts, yet experimental data are lacking for the vast majority of tropical tree species. We assessed intraspecific variation in response to water availability across a strong rainfall gradient for 16 tropical tree species using reciprocal transplant and common garden field experiments, along with measurements of gene flow and key functional traits linked to drought resistance.</p>
Data for: Effectiveness of forest density reduction treatments for increasing drought resistance of ponderosa pine growth
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Life history plasticity and water use trade-offs associated with drought resistance in a clade of California jewelflowers
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Data from: Resurrected seeds from herbarium specimens reveal rapid evolution of drought resistance in a selfing annual
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Data from: Limited intraspecific variation in drought resistance along a pronounced tropical rainfall gradient
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Recent fire history enhances semi-arid conifer forest drought resistance
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Data from: Vascular epiphytes show low physiological resistance and high recovery capacity to episodic, short-term drought in Monteverde, Costa Rica
<ol> <li>Tropical montane cloud forests support abundant epiphytic vascular plant communities that serve important ecosystem functions, but their reliance on atmospheric inputs of water may make them susceptible to the drying effects of rising cloud bases and more frequent droughts.</li> <li>We conducted a common garden experiment to explore the combined effects of decreasing cloud influence—lower humidity, warmer temperature, brighter light—and meteorological drought (i.e., absence of rain) on the physiology and morphology of vascular epiphytes native to primary forests of Monteverde, Costa Rica. The epiphytes, which exhibited C<sub>3</sub> photosynthesis, were sourced from a lower montane cloud forest (CF) or a rainforest below the current cloud base (RF) and transplanted into nearby shadehouses (CF or RF shadehouse, respectively). Vapor pressure deficit (VPD) and light availability, measured as photosynthetically active radiation, were 2.5 and 3.1 times higher in the RF than the CF shadehouse. Half of the plants were subjected to a severe four-week drought followed by a recovery period, and the other half were watered controls.</li> <li>Plants subjected to low VPD/light conditions of the CF shadehouse were physiologically and morphologically resistant to the drought treatment. However, compared to control plants, both sources of plants subjected to high VPD/light conditions of the RF shadehouse experienced declines in maximum net photosynthesis (A<sub>max</sub>), stomatal conductance (g<sub>s</sub>), and the proportion of healthy leaves (those not exhibiting chlorosis, desiccation, or necrosis). At peak drought, leaves from the RF were 19% thinner than controls. Within 7-14 days after rewatering, A<sub>max</sub>, g<sub>s</sub>, and leaf health recovered to nearly the levels of controls. Growth rate, mortality, and phenology were unaffected by the treatments.</li> <li>The divergent responses to drought in the CF versus RF shadehouses, combined with the recovery in the RF shadehouse, indicate that these epiphytes possess adaptive properties that confer low resistance, but high recovery capacity, to episodes of short-term drought over a range of cloud influence. In addition, the reduction in A<sub>max</sub> suggests stomatal regulation that favors water conservation over carbon acquisition, a strategy that may inform epiphyte responses to rising clouds and increasing drought frequency expected in the long term.</li> </ol>
Drought tolerant grassland species are generally more resistant to competition
<ol> <li>Plant populations are limited by resource availability and exhibit physiological trade-offs in resource acquisition strategies. These trade-offs may constrain the ability of populations to exhibit fast growth rates under water limitation and high cover of neighbors. However, traits that confer drought tolerance may also confer resistance to competition. It remains unclear how fitness responses to these abiotic conditions and biotic interactions combine to structure grassland communities and how this relationship may change along a gradient of water availability.</li> <li>To address these knowledge gaps, we estimated the low-density growth rates of populations in drought conditions with low neighbor cover and in ambient conditions with average neighbor cover for 82 species in six grassland communities across the Central Plains and Southwestern United States. We assessed the relationship between population tolerance to drought and resistance to competition and determined if this relationship was consistent across a precipitation gradient. We also tested whether population growth rates could be predicted using plant functional traits.</li> <li>Across six sites, we observed a positive correlation between low-density population growth rates in drought and in the presence of interspecific neighbors. This positive relationship was particularly strong in grasslands of the northern Great Plains but weak in the most xeric grasslands. High leaf dry matter content and low (more negative) leaf turgor loss point were associated with high population growth rates in drought and with neighbors in most grassland communities.</li> <li> <em>Synthesis</em>: A better understanding of how both biotic and abiotic factors impact population fitness provides valuable insights into how grasslands will respond to extreme drought. Our results advance plant strategy theory by suggesting that drought tolerance increases population resistance to interspecific competition in grassland communities. However, this relationship is not evident in the driest grasslands where aboveground competition is likely less important. Leaf dry matter content and turgor loss point may help predict which populations will establish and persist based on local water availability and neighbor cover, and these predictions can be used to guide the conservation and restoration of biodiversity in grasslands.</li> </ol>
Leaf-level resistance to frost, drought and heat covaries across European temperate tree seedlings
<p>Most trees die as seedlings, with harsh environmental conditions, such as early-spring frosts and summer heat waves, being important drivers of early mortality. However, it remains unclear whether tolerance to different environmental extremes (e.g. frost vs. heat) trades-off, or covaries synergistically and how stress tolerances relate to growth rates and life history strategies. Given the likely role of extreme environmental conditions as environmental filters, the ability to tolerate different stressors at the seedling stage could shape the occurrence and composition of present and future forests.</p> <p>We explored the relationships between different leaf-level stress tolerances, functional traits and geographic distributions across 22 species of temperate European tree seedlings. We measured indicators of tolerance to frost, drought and heat and related these values to growth rates and to important functional traits (e.g., leaf mass per area, stem specific density). Finally, we explored the links between measured seedling stress tolerances and climatic niche limits inferred from adult trees' distributions.</p> <p>We found that seedlings of most species were either moderately tolerant to all three stressors, or susceptible to all of them. Moreover, higher stress tolerances were associated with traits describing slower growth and lower competitive ability. However, seedling tolerances to climatic factors were unrelated to the environmental limits of their adult geographic distributions.</p> <p><em>Synthesis.</em> Our results suggest that temperate tree seedlings might not experience trade-offs when facing an increase in multiple extreme climate stressors, but may experience trade-offs related to growth rate and competitive ability in the establishment phase. The lack of correlation between leaf-level stress tolerances and the environmental limits of adult geographic distributions suggests that predicting species' current or future geographic distributions in Europe will require a more nuanced understanding of how climatic tolerances at juvenile and adult stages influence range limits. A better understanding of the interaction between survival in extreme climate, leaf-level stress tolerances of seedlings, and the factors driving species distributions is needed to understand future forest responses to climate change.</p>
Data from: Multivariate selection mediated by aridity predicts divergence of drought resistant traits along natural aridity gradients of an invasive weed
<p><span>Geographic variation in the environment underpins selection for local adaptation and evolutionary divergence among populations. Because many environmental conditions vary across species' ranges, identifying the specific environmental variables underlying local adaptation is profoundly challenging. </span></p> <p><span>We tested whether natural selection mediated by aridity predicts clinal divergence among invasive populations of capeweed (<i><span>Arctotheca calendula</span></i>) that established and spread across southern Australia during the last two centuries. </span></p> <p><span>Using common garden experiments with two environmental treatments (wet and dry) that mimic aridity conditions across capeweed's invasive range, we estimated clinal divergence and effects of aridity on fitness and multivariate phenotypic selection in populations sampled along aridity gradients in Australia. We show that: (<i>i</i>) capeweed populations have relatively high fitness in aridity environments similar to their sampling locations; (<i>ii</i>) the magnitude and direction of selection strongly differs between wet and dry treatments, with drought stress increasing the strength of selection; and (<i>iii</i>) differences in directional selection between wet and dry treatments predict patterns of clinal divergence across the aridity gradient, particularly for traits affecting biomass, flowering phenology and putative antioxidant expression. </span></p> <p><span>Our results suggest that aridity-mediated selection contributes to trait diversification among invasive capeweed populations, possibly facilitating the expansion of capeweed across southern Australia. </span></p>
Data set for: Leaf trait association in relation to herbivore defense, drought resistance, and economics in a tropical invasive plant
<p><strong><span>Premsie</span></strong><span>: </span><span>Exploring how functional traits vary and covary is important to understand plant responses to environmental change. However, we have limited understanding of the ways multiple functional traits vary and covary within invasive species.</span></p> <p><strong><span>Methods</span></strong><span>:</span> <span>We measured 12 leaf traits of an invasive plant <em>Chromolaena odorata</em>, associated with plant or leaf economics, herbivore defense, and drought resistance on 10 introduced populations from Asia and 12 native populations from America, selected across a broad range of climatic conditions, and grown in a common garden</span><span>.</span></p> <p><strong><span>Results</span></strong><span>: </span><span>Species'</span> <span>range and climatic conditions influenced leaf traits, but trait variation across climate space differed between the introduced and native ranges. Traits that confer defense against herbivores and drought resistance were associated with economic strategy, but the patterns differed by range. Plants from introduced populations that were at the fast-return end of the spectrum (high photosynthetic capacity) had high physical defense traits (high trichome density), whereas plants from native populations that were at the fast-return end of the spectrum had high drought escape traits (early leaf senescence and high percentage of withered shoots).</span></p> <p><strong> <span>Conclusions</span></strong><span>:</span> <span>Our results indicate that invasive plants can rapidly adapt to novel environmental conditions. <em>C. odorata</em> showed multiple different functional trait covariation patterns and clines in the native and introduced ranges. Our results emphasize that interaction between multiple traits or functions should be considered when investigating the adaptive evolution of invasive plants.</span></p>
Drought resistance enhanced by tree species diversity in global forests
<p>The species diversity effect (theta) on drought resistance for global forest ecoregions. The species diversity effect was estimated based on a global analysis of the relationship between species richness and drought-induced changes in forest productivity, using a database that contains more than 0.7 million forest plots and satellite-based estimation of drought resistance.</p>
SurEau database : A database of hydraulic and stomatal traits for modelling drought resistance in plants
<p>This file contains a database of hydraulic and stomatal traits that accompanies the paper untitled "Pant resistance to drought relies on timely stomatal closure" publish in Ecology Letters. This database was used to built the Figure of this manuscript.</p> <p>> The first page ("Stem_VCurves") contains the parameter of vulnerability curve to embolism for 150 species. Family, genus and species names as well as original reference are provided.</p> <p>> The second page ("Pgs90") contains a first proxy for the water potential causing stomatal closure, it is the value of water potential causing 90% stomatal closure computed from gs versus water potential. Family, genus and species names as well as original reference are provided.</p> <p>> The third page (Ptlp) contains a second proxy for the water potential causing stomatal closure, it is the turgor loss point computed from pressure volume curves. Family, genus and species names as well as original reference are provided.</p> <p>> The fourth page (ALL) contains all the three previous pages together, allowing to reconstruct Figure 1.</p> <p>> The fifth page (PitlpAdultSeedlings) contains values of turgor loss point for adults and seedilngs for 15 species.</p> <p>> The sixth page (P50AdultSeedlings) contains values of embolism resistance for adults and seedilngs for 14 species.</p> <p>> The seventh page (Emin) contains values of minimum (i.e. cuticular) conductance and minimum transpiration for 33 species as well as embolism resistance values for theese species.</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p>
Dataset for Resistance of Australian fish communities to drought and flood: implications for climate change and adaptations
<p>Data and code analyzing fish response to extreme drought and flood in Australia's Murray Darling Basin. Original fish data can be found here: <a href="https://www.gbif.org/dataset/f38cc07c-49a8-4ca4-8882-5cdde1733c12"><u>https://www.gbif.org/dataset/f38cc07c-49a8-4ca4-8882-5cdde1733c12</u></a>. Original rainfall data can be found here: http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/maps/rainfall/?variable=rainfall&map=totals&period=month®ion=nat&year=2004&month=01&day=31 </p>
source data of "Enhanced vegetation drought resistance induced by elephant disturbance in Africa"
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Data from: Interplay between rainfall and hillslope hydrology determines drought resistance of tropical vegetation
<p><span>Droughts are predicted to increase in both frequency and intensity by the end of the 21st century, but ecosystem response is not expected to be uniform. At the landscape scale, ecosystem response to drought is highly heterogeneous. Here we assess the importance of the hill-to-valley hydrologic gradient in shaping vegetation hydraulic properties related to drought resistance for three locations across a rainfall seasonality gradient in South America. For this, we use hydraulic traits related to xylem resistance to embolism and compare the functional composition and diversity of tree communities. We show that the hydrologic gradient systematically selects for community assemblages that are more vulnerable to embolism in valleys, regardless of rainfall. Under the same rainfall regime, diversity in resistance to embolism is higher on hills than valleys, suggesting that strategies to cope with drought are more important on hills. With increasing seasonality, diversity in embolism resistance increases on hills and decreases in valleys. Our results show that differential groundwater access from hilltops to valleys select for distinctive hydraulic properties, potentially explaining species turnover along topographical gradients. Incorporating this relationship might improve the representation of vegetation in climate models and the prediction of how different communities will respond to extreme droughts.</span></p>
Decoupling of functional traits from intraspecific patterns of growth and drought stress resistance
<p>Intraspecific variation in functional traits may mediate tree species' drought resistance, yet it remains unknown if trait variation is due to genotype (G), environment (E), or GxE interactions. Understanding the drivers of intraspecific trait variation and whether variation mediates drought response can improve predictions of species' response to future drought.</p> <p>Using populations of quaking aspen spanning a climate gradient, we investigated intraspecific variation in functional traits in the field as well as the influence of G and E among propagules in a common garden. We also tested for trait-mediated trade-offs in growth and drought stress tolerance.</p> <p>We observed intraspecific trait variation among the populations, yet this variation did not necessarily translate to higher drought stress tolerance in hotter/drier populations. Additionally, plasticity in the common garden was low, especially in propagules derived from the hottest/driest population. We found no growth-drought stress tolerance trade-offs and few traits exhibited significant relationships with mortality in the natural populations, suggesting that intraspecific trait variation among the traits measured did not strongly mediate responses to drought stress.</p> <p>Our results highlight the limits of trait-mediated responses to drought stress and the complex GxE interactions that may underly drought stress tolerance variation in forests in dry environments.</p>
Data from: Unique drought resistance strategies occur among monkeyflower populations spanning an aridity gradient
<p>This data repository contains the metadata and data to produce all results found in the manuscript titled: "<em>Unique drought resistance strategies occur among monkeyflower populations spanning an aridity gradient</em>". This repository includes two different datasets as well as associated readme files. One dataset (fileA) contains phenotype data from an experimental manipulation experiment taking place in growth chambers at the University of Louisiana, Lafayette. The second dataset contains data from a common garden experiment that contained offspring from the well-watered treatment of the experimental manipulation from fileA. This dataset contains both offspring and midparent values for the same phenotypes measured in the experimental manipulation. Datasets are both uploaded as .csv files. Please read the readme files for descriptions of the data in each .csv file.</p>
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