Roberto Salguero-Gómez

TL;DR: The extent of the trait data compiled in TRY is evaluated and emerging patterns of data coverage and representativeness are analyzed to conclude that reducing data gaps and biases in the TRY database remains a key challenge and requires a coordinated approach to data mobilization and trait measurements.

TL;DR: Great variation among these species, including increasing, constant, decreasing, humped and bowed trajectories for both long- and short-lived species, challenges theoreticians to develop broader perspectives on the evolution of ageing and empiricists to study the demography of more species.

TL;DR: It is shown that simple morphological measurements can predict where a species falls within the global range of life history strategies: species with large seeds, long-lived leaves, or dense wood have population growth rates influenced primarily by survival, whereas individual growth and fecundity have a stronger influence on the dynamics of species with small seeds, short-lived Leaves, or soft wood.

TL;DR: Some of the main expected impacts of global change in drylands are reviewed, the complexities and difficulties associated with the prediction of such impacts are highlighted, and the increased use of long-term experiments and multidisciplinary approaches are identified as priority areas for future dryland research.

TL;DR: The found that life-history strategies of 418 plant species worldwide are explained by an axis representing the pace of life and another representing the wide range of reproductive strategies, suggesting that the relative independence of the fast–slow and reproduction strategy axes is general in the plant kingdom.