MUCINA, Ladislav, Klaus MUMMENHOFF, Pieter WINTER, van Niekerk ADRIAAN, Terezie MALÍK MANDÁKOVÁ and Martin LYSÁK. Drought and life-history strategies in Heliophila (Brassicaceae). New Phytologist. HOBOKEN: Blackwell Science, 2024, vol. 241, No 2, p. 532-534. ISSN 0028-646X. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/nph.19352.
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Original name Drought and life-history strategies in Heliophila (Brassicaceae)
Authors MUCINA, Ladislav (guarantor), Klaus MUMMENHOFF, Pieter WINTER, van Niekerk ADRIAAN, Terezie MALÍK MANDÁKOVÁ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution) and Martin LYSÁK (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution).
Edition New Phytologist, HOBOKEN, Blackwell Science, 2024, 0028-646X.
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Original language English
Type of outcome Article in a journal
Field of Study 10611 Plant sciences, botany
Country of publisher United States of America
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
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Impact factor Impact factor: 9.400 in 2022
Organization unit Central European Institute of Technology
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/nph.19352
UT WoS 001110947000001
Keywords in English Brassicaceae; Classification & Regression Tree; climatic seasonality; drought regime; Heliophila; life history; phylogenetic tree; Random Forests
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Abstract
Monroeet al.(2019) claim that drought regimes predict life-history strategies in plants, using the taxonomically complex southern African genus Heliophila (Brassicaceae) as a model. The authors focused on a relatively short period (34 yr) of remote-sensing data,focusing on the Vegetative Health Index (VHI), ostensibly to represent drought frequency, and the authors use the term ‘historical drought regimes’ as a background to gain insight into the evolution of life histories in the genus. Here, we argue that some of the procedures and conclusions presented by Monroeet al.(2019) are either simplistic or flawed due to methodological and conceptual errors. We shall demonstrate that Monroeet al.(2019): relied on an inaccurate distribution data set; uncritically presented and applied the phylogenetic data; and presented a conceptual error by using the a short-term climatic dataset to infer the change in life history on evolutionary time scales.
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GA19-07487S, research and development projectName: Polyploidní minulost a diploidní současnost: evoluce a diversifikace jihoafrického rodu Heliophila
Investor: Czech Science Foundation, The polyploid past versus diploid present: evolution and diversification of the southern African Heliophila
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