Nicolas Salamin

TL;DR: A synthesis of grass evolutionary biology with grassland ecosystem science will further knowledge of the evolution of traits that promote dominance in grassland systems and will provide a new context in which to evaluate the relative importance of C4 photosynthesis in transforming ecosystems across large regions of Earth.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compared phenology (the timing of recurring life history events) in observational studies and warming experiments spanning four continents and 1,634 plant species using a common measure of temperature sensitivity (change in days per degree Celsius).

TL;DR: The aim of the ecospat package is to make available novel tools and methods to support spatial analyses and modeling of species niches and distributions in a coherent workflow and stimulate the use of comprehensive approaches in spatial modelling of species and community distributions.

TL;DR: An assessment of how well current phylogenetic resources might work in the context of identification (versus phylogeny reconstruction) with two of the markers commonly sequenced in land plant phylogenetic studies, plastid rbcL and internal transcribed spacers of the large subunits of nuclear ribosomal DNA (ITS), finds that both of these DNA regions perform well.

TL;DR: Using a phylogenetic supertree of all grass species in California, it is shown that highly invasive grass species are, on average, significantly less related to native grasses than are introduced but noninvasive grasses.