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May 29, 2026Nature CommunicationsOpen Access

Plant population responses to environmental variability are primarily driven by survival-reproduction trade-offs and mediated by aridity

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GSGabriel Silva SantosXYXianyu YangSGSamuel J. L. Gascoigne

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Overview

Randomized trial shows how survival-reproduction trade-offs and aridity influence plant population resilience to climate change.

Key Points

  • This research aims to understand how environmental variability, life history traits, and evolutionary history affect the resilience of plant populations.
  • Utilized a Bayesian generalised linear mixed model with vital rate data from 121 natural populations of 78 plant species.
  • Analyzed how demographic buffering relates to survival-reproduction trade-offs and aridity levels.
  • Found that population responses to environmental variability vary four orders of magnitude along a demographic buffering continuum.
  • Demonstrated that a survival-reproduction trade-off and aridity significantly predict a population's position on this continuum.

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Santos et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a192d7efab5b468c441663ehttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-73720-x
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