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Plants exhibit an extraordinary diversity of life history strategies, which has allowed them to colonize every region of the world. Each species’ unique ecological and evolutionary history has shaped their relative allocation to reproduction and survival. Broadly, plants can exp…

Recent work projects significant increases in sea surface temperature over the next century. The biological consequences of such change are poorly understood. Study designs using conservation paleobiology combined with sclerochronology can provide a framework to assess these con…