Publications by authors named "Susan E Everingham"
Article Synopsis
- Plants can adapt to climate change by altering their leaf characteristics and physiological traits to survive.
- A study used historic seeds and modern seeds to compare how climate change affected leaf morphology and gas exchange in different regions.
- Results indicated that regions with more significant climate changes saw greater modifications in leaf traits, particularly in physical characteristics, while physiological traits showed less variation.
Article Synopsis
- - AusTraits is a comprehensive database that compiles data on 448 traits from 28,640 taxa in Australian flora, integrating information from various sources like field studies and published literature.
- - The database includes a wide range of traits, from physiological performance measures (like photosynthesis) to morphological features (such as leaf size and plant height), linking these traits to ecological variations.
- - The latest version, 3.0.2, presents 997,808 trait-by-taxon combinations and aims to facilitate collaboration in archiving and sharing plant trait data, serving as a model for similar initiatives worldwide.
Studies assessing the biological impacts of climate change typically rely on long-term, historic data to measure trait responses to climate through time. Here, we overcame the problem of absent historical data by using resurrected seeds to capture historic plant-trait data for a number of plant regeneration and growth traits. We collected seed and seedling trait measurements from resurrected historic seeds and compared these with modern seed and seedling traits collected from the same species in the same geographic location.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMany taxa show substantial differences in lifespan between the sexes. However, these differences are not always in the same direction. In mammals, females tend to live longer than males, while in birds, males tend to live longer than females.
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