Fire-stimulated flowering enhances multiple plant fitness components
Our results provide evidence of the adaptive value of fire-stimulated flowering, which allows plants to exploit the unique abiotic and biotic conditions of the immediate post-fire environment, and highlight fire as a key driver of plant life-history evolution in Mediterranean ecosystems.
Authors
- María Clara Castellanos (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9967-355X)
- Julia Gegunde
- Juli G Pausas
Institutions
- University of Sussex (GB)
- Centre d'Investigacions sobre Desertificació (ES)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Annals of Botany
- Published
- 2026-03-14
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcag048
- Primary Topic
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00