Adaptive associations among life history, reproductive traits, environment, and origin in the Wisconsin angiosperm flora.
Thomas J GivnishRicardo KriebelJohn G ZaborskyJeffrey P RoseDaniel SpalinkDonald M WallerKenneth M CameronKenneth J SytsmaPublished in: American journal of botany (2020)
These findings support predictions regarding how breeding systems depend on flower size, flower color, and fruit type, and how those traits depend on habitat. This study is the first to combine flora-wide phylogenies with complete trait databases and phylogenetically structured analyses to provide powerful tests of evolutionary hypotheses about reproductive traits and their variation with geographic source, each other, and environmental conditions.