Rodent population dynamics affect seedling recruitment in alpine habitats [PDF]
, 2014 Questions: How do rodents with cyclic population dynamics affect seedling recruitment in alpine habitats? Does disturbance fromrodents have larger implications on seedling recruitment in some plant communities than in others?
Eide, Nina Elisabeth +6 more
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On the reasons that natural regeneration is important for species coexistence in tropical forests
Colombia Forestal, 2014 Plant regeneration plays a critical role in the maintenance of species diversity in tropical rainforests. This is a multistage process, including seed production, dispersal, germination and subsequent seedling establishment.
Natalia Norden
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Experimental seed sowing reveals seedling recruitment vulnerability to unseasonal fire
, 2021 Unseasonal fire occurrence is increasing globally, driven by climate change and other human activity. Changed timing of fire can inhibit postfire seedling recruitment through interactions with plant phenology (the timing of key processes, e.g., flower ...
Miller, R.G. +9 more
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Contrasting effects of grazing on the early stages of woody encroachment in a Neotropical savanna
Basic and Applied Ecology, 2022 Woody encroachment in savannas represents an ecological process of current global interest given its negative impact on ecosystem functioning, particularly on forage production.
Lucía S. Mochi +3 more
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Plants as Reef Fish: Fitting the Functional Form of Seedling Recruitment [PDF]
The American Naturalist, 2007 The life histories of many species depend first on dispersal to local sites and then on establishment. After dispersal, density-independent and density-dependent mortalities modify propagule supply, determining the number of individuals that establish.
Poulsen, JR +4 more
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Roles of seed and establishment limitation in determining patterns of afrotropical tree recruitment.
PLoS ONE, 2013 Quantifying the relative importance of the multiple processes that limit recruitment may hold the key to understanding tropical tree diversity. Here we couple theoretical models with a large-scale, multi-species seed-sowing experiment to assess the ...
Connie J Clark +2 more
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Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2020 To recover the structure and functionality of a deforested ecosystem, two strategies of ecological restoration are considered: active restoration, which eliminates the disturbance agents and implements strategies to accelerate site recovery, and passive ...
Gerardo Guzmán-Aguilar +5 more
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Invasibility of a nutrient-poor pasture through resident and non-resident herbs is controlled by litter, gap size and propagule pressure. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 Since inference concerning the relative effects of propagule pressure, biotic interactions, site conditions and species traits on the invasibility of plant communities is limited, we carried out a field experiment to study the role of these factors for ...
R Lutz Eckstein +3 more
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Factors limiting the recruitment of Quercus schottkyana, a dominant evergreen oak in SW China
Plant Diversity, 2018 Quercus schottkyana is a dominant species of oak in the Asian evergreen broad-leaved forests in southwestern China but seedlings are uncommon and recruitment is rare. Annual acorn production by Q.
Ke Xia +3 more
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PLoS ONE, 2020 We tested whether post-fire seedling establishment of common boreal tree and expanding shrub species at treeline and in Arctic tundra is facilitated by co-migration of boreal forest mycorrhizal fungi.
Rebecca E Hewitt +5 more
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