“…The vast majority of the world's flora relies on seed germination for natural regeneration, and variation in seed germination rate has important downstream consequences on seedling performance, such as emergence timing, and on later stages of the plant life cycle, such as seed yield (Finch-Savage, 1995). Yet surprisingly, the sensitivity of germination to global temperature change has been quantified for only about 0.1% of species (D€ urr, Dickie, Yang, & Pritchard, 2015), including crop species such as pearl millet (Garcia-Huidobro, Monteith, & Squire, 1982) and chickpea , and wild species from Europe (alpine species, Mondoni, Rossi, Orsenigo, & Probert, 2012;Vitis vinifera, Orr u, Mattana, Pritchard, & Bacchetta, 2012;Carex diandra, Fern andez-Pascual, Seal, & Pritchard, 2015), Australia (40 species of Banksia, Cochrane, 2015), Africa (Colophospermum mopane, Stevens, Seal, Archibald, & Bond, 2014) and Mexico (Polaskia chende and P. chichipe, Ordoñez- Salanueva et al, 2015).…”