Dormancy is a widespread bet-hedging strategy across taxa, enabling organisms to survive natural and anthropogenic disturbances. It fundamentally alters eco-evolutionary processes, including ...

Global species assessments, in which every extant species in a taxonomic group is systematically assessed, have been conducted only for very few plant groups such as cycads, conifers, mangroves and ...

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