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  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Plant Sciences
  • Conservation Biology

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  • Global fire patterns are changing, leading to ecological mismatches between plants and their environments.
  • These mismatches have significant, yet often overlooked, evolutionary consequences for plant populations.
  • The capacity of plants to adapt to altered fire regimes is a critical, unanswered question.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a framework for assessing plant adaptive potential to changing fire regimes.
  • To integrate trait variation within and among populations into evolutionary forecasting.
  • To provide new tools for predicting environmental changes and informing plant conservation strategies.

Main Methods:

  • Analyzing fire-related traits, such as canopy seed storage and fire-stimulated seed release.
  • Examining trait heritability and fitness benefits within plant populations.
  • Utilizing advances in genomics to estimate evolutionary potential in wild, long-lived species.

Main Results:

  • Fire-related traits exhibit variation within species, indicating potential for adaptive evolution.
  • Heritable fire-related traits can confer fitness advantages under changing fire regimes.
  • A novel framework allows for the recognition of trait-fire mismatches and forecasting of evolutionary responses.

Conclusions:

  • Plant populations may possess the evolutionary capacity to adapt to shifting fire regimes if key traits are heritable.
  • The developed framework offers a new approach to understanding plant evolutionary responses to environmental change.
  • Genomic tools are crucial for estimating the evolutionary potential of long-lived wild plants facing altered fire regimes.