Since plants cannot run away, they have developed a wide array of functional adaptations to survive changing conditions. This colloquium presentation introduces Functional Traits, a new research group in Naturalis focusing on traits that are involved in evolutionary transitions towards wood formation. Woodiness has developed hundreds of times independently during evolutionary history, presumably driven by drought for most lineages. We combine anatomy, evolutionary biology, ecophysiology and genetics to identify environmental and generic drivers of woodiness based on collections in Naturalis and living plants in the field.
Time: 16:00 | Link: https://meet.google.com/nia-djiw-rmc. | Drinks afterwards! (on your own behalf)