Oliver Bossdorf

TL;DR: What is required to assess phenotypic plasticity at different levels is described and a new framework can be applied when testing both ecological or evolutionary oriented hypotheses, and therefore promises to bridge the gap between the two perspectives.

TL;DR: There is reasonable empirical evidence to suggest that genetic differentiation through rapid evolutionary change is important in plant invasions, and conceptual and methodological issues associated with cross-continental comparisons are discussed.

TL;DR: Ecologists should start using a combination of experimental approaches borrowed from ecological genetics, novel techniques to analyse and manipulate epigenetic variation, and genomic tools, to investigate the extent and structure of epigenetics variation within and among natural populations, as well as the interrelations between epigenetic variations, phenotypic variation and ecological interactions.

TL;DR: The Biodiversity Exploratories (www.biodiversityexploratories.de ) as mentioned in this paper is a large-scale and long-term project for functional biodiversity, which includes a hierarchical set of standardized field plots in three different regions of Germany covering manifold management types and intensities in grasslands and forests.

TL;DR: Examining the detailed global population structure of Arabidopsis thaliana finds a pattern for the development of isolation by distance that can establish itself shortly after an organism fills a new habitat range, and raises questions about the general applicability of many standard population genetics models.