Climatic and evolutionary contexts are required to infer plant life history strategies from functional traits at a global scale

Life history strategies are fundamental to the ecology and evolution of organisms important for understanding extinction risk responses global change. Using datasets a multiple response modelling framework we show that trait-climate interactions associated with life diverse range plant species at scale. Our informs our trade-offs positive correlations between elements after accounting environmental context evolutionary trait-based constraints. Interactions traits climatic were needed explain variation in age maturity, distribution mortality across lifespan generation times species. Mean maturity plants’ under These findings provide empirical support theoretical expectation is key trait relationships globally.